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The Liam Neeson-starring thriller The Grey is due out January 27 from Open Road Films and centers on an expert in survival skills whose plane crashes in the arctic wild. He must lead a group of survivors to safety while fighting off some bad doggies. So is it the winter weather that’s finally upon us or director Joe Carnahan’s action scenes that are responsible for the shivers we get when watching this?
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looks AWESOME
it does, but so did ‘The Edge’. The same movie, beat for beat. But i did dig that movie, so…
This movie looks ridiculous. Did the wolves kidnap his daughter?
Finally something to look forward to!!!
Love Liam as an action hero.
Dope. This is the kind of movie that needs to be made. Can Adi Shankar and Megan Ellison save Hollywood? And yes, I know Megan had nothing to do with this movie, just sayin’
Megan Ellison, simply put, is a rock star!
Big fan of Liam, but this movie would be great on cable too. I will wait
So they expect us to pay $14 a sit and enjoy watching a group of people kill a pack of wolves who are also trying to survive? In real life you gotta do what you gotta do, but how is this entertainment? I guess that’s why this movie is being released in January.
I love that people get so sensitive about fictional animals getting killed in fictional movies. Thousands of fictional people are murdered every year, but no one sheds a tear for them.
Hundreds of wolves are hunted and killed annually – nothing fictional about that! This movie is pointless…
The issue there is, wolves are cool and innately sympathetic in any modern fiction. I haven’t seen how they work that out in the movie but it’s potentially a major dramatic misjudgement on the part of the makers. You want an enemy you can kill without conscience, stick to Nazis.
Yeah, well, dogs are innately sympathetic also but…CUJO, anyone? So are little children, for that matter, but I direct your attention to THE BAD SEED (and all of its innumerable variants).
It all depends on how these “innately sympathetic” creatures are presented and something tells me Carnahan knows what he is doing with this particular movie and there won’t be any problem with dividing the loyalty of the audience.
Looks like The Edge with wolves.
^ This. I was interested until the wolves showed up. Seen this story a few times before. The trailer doesn’t leave much out either.
Actually, there hasn’t been once case of a Wolf killing a human in North America in modern, recorded history. I’m sure it has happened soemwhere…but the movie premise is a bit silly.
Wrong dummy,I suggest you do a little more research next time While attacks on humans by wolves are rare they have happened….there are documented cases of people who have been killed by wolves in Canada(which is part of North America) in the province of British Columbia where this moviw was filmed…..so before you insert foot in mouth next time …check your “facts”.
Actually, there have been no proven wolf attacks in North America. The Canadian attacks were of discovered bodies that had been eaten by wolves but were probably killed by bears. There were no witnesses. Wolves regularly feed on carrion. Ironically there have been a few deaths by pet wolves in captivity, but far far fewer than those by pet dogs. Your reference to ‘documentation’ is misleading since the mere fact that deaths were recorded consists of documentation. Wolves as killing predators are a part of Russian mythology with many fables around. If wolves were indeed dangerous, they wouldn’t be re introduced into the environment as they are now. Unfortunately ranchers and farmers are quick to kill these animals as they consider them a threat even though more livestock is killed by domestic dogs. Of course, it’s just a movie. On another note, there is no reason to be so rude.
Why is it silly? Because it simply HASN’T happened even though it COULD happen? It’s damn movie.
YES! Liam is back.
how many of the people who bitched at palin for shooting wolves will go see this movie, which presents the animals as demons to be slaughtered? not so environmentally friendly methinks.
hysterical. you think machine gunning wolves from a helicopter and defending yourself when wolves are trying to eat you is the same thing. you’re the exact kind of person that thinks sarah palin is smart.
just sayin makin enemies of our fellow inhabitants of planet earth, be they predators or prey, is not very friendly-like.
maybe carnahan’s next movie could be an elephant stampede. and neeson could shoot dumbo right between the eyes!
i do think carnahan’s a good director.
“defending yourself when wolves are trying to eat you”
Put down your shotgun and slowly get off the crazy train
So we’re supposed to care about a guy who shoots wolves to protect an oil company? Best thing he could do is let the wolves kill everyone. Dumb movie. That’s why it’s in Jan. Redbox by Feb.
Redbox, do you honestly think the logline for this movie is, “A man shoots wolves to protect an oil company”?
I have decided to let you off the hook on the grounds that anyone dumb enough to believe a sentence like that could never have written it.
What he has are a very particular set of skills…
Looks like Carnahan is going to redeem himself after The A-Team. My rage over that debacle has just started to subside after seeing this bad-ass-edness. America…fuck yeah!
question is:
Team Jacob or Team Liam?
Team wolf.
I saw a test screening of this last month.
This is easily Joe Carnahan’s best film. I’ve seen all his work in theaters but nothing grabbed me like this.
What impressed me was the level of depth that (some) of the characters get. This could’ve very easily been a B movie slasher flick with a killer picking them off one by one type thing but it’s not. It’s not as elevated as ALIEN in that sense but it’s close. You feel for Neeson and most of his crew throughout the picture and they all get their moment to shine with a heartfelt scene (or two). It’s a welcome surprise by how good those moments are pulled off.
The plane crash. Bitchin’. About as effective as the crash in CASTAWAY. When it was over, the audience applauded.
The wolves. Excellent. Scary as hell. A few genuine “holy shit” jump moments. Carnahan makes them very effective by showing them at a minimun ala JAWS or ALIEN and they are aided by an excellent sound design that moves them beyond wolves as animals and more like wolves as monsters (in a good way). Even if some of the CG is a touch… CG, you’re still scared for the characters to survive them.
Liam Neeson. Buzz was that he could get an Oscar nod for this and he damn well should. Most of the movie he’s playing the good ol’ reliable Liam Neeson we know and love, but towards the end as the walls close in, holy shit, he brings it.
The one nagging problem. He does not fight the wolf with glass knuckles. At all.
At least not in the cut I saw. EVERYTHING up to that point works and then… it’s over. Carnahan is trying to say “It doesn’t matter if we see him fight the wolf, he’s at peace with himself and his fate and that’s enough, emotionally.” But it’s not.
The way the film is being marketed, the trailer, the poster. It’s making it look like a NEESON VS. WOLF showdown type thing. And I want to see that! And I bet you do too! I admire Carnahan for trying something ballsy like that, but it doesn’t work here. It’s a major emotional set up with a non pay off.
But I stress, everything else in this movie rocks. I really, really loved it. It just needs an ending. I pray Carnahan is able to get Neeson back and shoot the fight that WE’RE ALL promised in the marketing. Not just for commercial reasons or because the good guy has to fight the bad guy in the third act etc… it’s because the story calls for it. That confrontation is set up through out the entire film. Watching, you expect it. And you don’t get it. It needs to be there.
If Carnahan puts in a final face off with the wolf that is emotionally satisfying, this could easily be one of the best “Man Vs Nature” films ever made.
Gee, Liam Neeson is going to get an Oscar. This would have been a good weekend to release the film for Oscar consideration. The trailer looks derivative, cobbled together from other films. The fact that a viewer can comment on plot structure and CG problems belies the fact that this is a good film. The flashback shots of Neeson in bed with an actress that looks like his (grand) daughter are creepy. The wolves look like the dogs in the original OMEN. The studio should pray for good weather the weekend this movie opens (or doesn’t). Did you see this at a cast and crew screening?
It was a test screening. Surveys etc at the end of it.
Wow. I loved the original screenplay which of course climaxed with the mano y lupine battle you alluded to and I am VERY surprised Carnahan cut it. There’s no question he shot it so I wonder what the hell happened. Did it end up looking unintentionally comical, or what…?
I hope Carnahan reshoots or re-edits the damn thing and reistates it in the movie because you’re absolutely right, the story as written fairly cries out for that kind of closure.
Yea part of me thinks that he just chose to screen a cut without the fight just to see how the audience would react, because right when Neeson takes off towards the wolf, it cuts to black and the end credits roll. What happened in the script you read?
@Blah:
“In real life you gotta do what you gotta do, but how is this entertainment?”
When you go to see a movie like this, you are supposed to “believe” that it’s really happening. I should say suspend belief and go along for the ride. The “what if” factor.
It’s called an imagination. I hope to God you are not a creative.
It’s people like you that fuel THE NOTHING.
ATREYU!!!!
I hope there’s going to be some good, convincing reason given why the wolves are chasing the men, not just ‘because’. And not just because they are hungry. To be honest, I think this movie could have been entertaining with a range of negative forces (such as weather, human frailty etc.) without throwing the wolves into the mix.
Kudos to the house that cut that trailer. Nice work.
it was mOcean.
and thanks!
What an ignorant movie by an uninformed filmmaker who knows nothing about wolves and must think this is a “cool” premise, or entertainment in some way. The good news is this will quickly disappear without a whisper.
Now THAT is what a Hollywood trailer is supposed to look like! Can’t wait!!!
Awesomely made trailer! Definitely going to check this movie out when it comes out in the new year. Is it just me or is Liam Neeson becoming a badass action star?