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Here’s a second, longer trailer for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic 42 that opens April 12. Brian Helgeland wrote and directs the film about the famed Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman who broke pro baseball’s color barrier. Chadwick Boseman stars as Robinson and Harrison Ford plays team general manager Branch Rickey.
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Please please please tell me there’s no rap in the movie, that it’s only for the trailer. Please tell me they didn’t screw things up that bad.
all period music
Nice trailer until the end when that horseshit music started.
Exactly what I thought! I notice trailer editors have no clue when it comes to music. “Hey lets put in a cool hip hop music so we can get a young audience into the theater. Why not try using music that fits the era?
Because it doesn’t have anything to do with music of today that’s what’s wrong with the world of today next they should put in computers too and flat screens why not .
I actually really liked the music at the end. Not everyone shares your taste in music Rose. And if it gets a few more tickets sold I don’t see a problem with it.
Agreed. This looks good. And I don’t even like baseball.
I agree with Rose, preferring to use irritating music over manure. U need period music. If it is done right I would love to see this movie with my brothers. Jackie was very special, very important. I hope they don’t ruin it with rap or other inappropriate music.
Does anyone know the artist and title of the song at the end of “42″?
Would very much like to know the words too.
What music should they have played??? kiss, johnny cash, garth brooks?????? better yet why don’t you compose a score for the movie?………………………..crickets……….just as I thought.
April 12 seems like a strange release date. That’s roughly two weeks after Opening Day… won’t baseball fans be too busy going to real baseball games to care about this?
April 15 is “Jackie Robinson Day”, the anniversary of his first MLB game and the day every player wears #42…
Jackie Robinson broke into the majors on April 15th. So the film is being released on a Friday, three days prior.
Looks good. Trailer seems like it is trying not to forget a younger audience in this biopic. Definitely will see it as should all baseball fans.
This looks terrific. Shocked at good Harrison Ford captures Branch Rickey. This might be a great film. Can’t wait to see it.
The nose played for Matt in Ocean’s, but it don’t play in 42. HF’s nose = almost as bad as Kidman’s in The Hours.
When I was 10 (45 years ago), I was with my family at Grossinger’s, the Borscht Belt resort. I don’t know why or how I recognized him, but there was Jackie Robinson. I remember a very gentile man with salt and pepper hair. I got his autograph before he started a round of golf. I’ve never been much of a sports fan and I don’t know jack about baseball, but I knew who Jackie Robinson was, and I remember that moment clear as day. I did not know who he was because I was a baseball fan; I knew because he was the first black major league baseball player and he was heroic. I actually got a little teary watching this trailer. I think this is an important movie in the vein of “Lincoln” and “Django”. Society still needs to address in its consciousness past atrocities or other wrongs committed against Africans and African Americans.
Amen Ben.
I got teary, too. Glad I’m not alone. What a great man – I’m glad this movie can honor his legacy and I hope it does so well. This trailer made me more interested in the project than ever.
I meant “gentle”, not “gentile”. Sorry about the auto-correct going wrong. Thanks for the replies.
April 12 is Jackie Robinson Day and all Major League players wear the number 42.
Mark Isham is the composer.
This is a GREAT movie.
As far as the music goes, I’m not sure there’s another song that’s more appropriate. I just hope the film focuses on Jackie Robinson’s story and not Harrison Ford’s effort to sign him and bat back the criticism of signing a black player. Please, Hollywood, stop white-washing these stories.
Nice trailer but the costumes look terrible!
Looks great. The hip-hop music will be a huge draw for the younger generation.
Opening on April 12 makes a lot of sense as Monday, April 15, is “Jackie Robinson Day” in MLB baseball. Each player on all MLB teams (yes that’s right, all 30 teams!) wears the same number on their jersey (42) to honor Jackie and breaking the color barrier in baseball.
Very nice trailer.
@steved – yes! @ben – that’s an awesome memory…
@Rose – agreed. The Jay-Z piece at the end is terrible and out of place but I understand why it’s there. This movie looks very classy and well-done, which will make kids think it’s “corny” so they have to throw Jay-Z in there to make sure kids pay attention. Jackie Robinson is part of American history that everyone should know about, so if it takes Jay-Z to bring kids to the table, so be it.
The Jay Z music is ridiculous AND one of those huge trailer cliches now, like Limp Bizkit’s “Break This” from ten years ago or the Pulp Fiction record scratch from the 90s. Please retire it, guys, it’s become a parody of itself.
I can’t wait to see this. So good to see some new black faces on the screen. I guess Denzel, The Fresh Prince and Jamie Foxx are too old to play the young JR, huh?
And that Jay Z music… yikes! I dig the brotha and all but I hope it’s just trailer trash to get the youngins in and won’t actually be in the film. The old bait and switch.
I think the movie looks great. I normally can’t stand the use of contemporary music in a trailer for a period film – too often it feels like a desperate, insincere and unnecessary grab at relevance – but I find this use of it really effective. I don’t know Jay-Z’s music well enough to know if this song is specifically for the movie, but the lyrics about Jackie Robinson are appropriate – and Jay-Z is from Brooklyn, while Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I find it organic and interesting. Well done.
With Harrison Ford heading this, I’m concerned it will be more about Branch Rickey than Jackie, despite the focus of the trailer. I really hope I am wrong.
The rap music at the end is really insulting and tacky. It speaks to what the studios belief about a younger generation as a whole: not smart enough to see, based on the great moments and acting in the trailer, and the historical nature of the film itself, that it should be seen. Really disappointing that they didn’t use music from the period. And while I have nothing against rap, Mr. Robinson is a classy guy. If he were still alive I don’t think he’d think much of rap music. Meh.
Umm the trailer is awesome, and the Jay-Z music at the end only makes it better. Just like the Jay-Z music at the end of the Gangster Squad trailer. Or the Kanye music in the Safe House preview. I trust Warner Bros and Legendary know more about marketing a movie than you good folks….
Also look for Chadwick Boseman in The Kill Hole
Wow, stop hating on Jay. It’s obviously JUST for the trailer and it’s actually a great track – but then I imagine most of you people think hip-hop music couldn’t possibly have meaning behind it.
No one is hating on Jay – just the song. It just sounds terrible and forced in this trailer (I love rap music, btw.) Looks like a good movie – it’s certainly a great subject. I hope anyone who doesn’t know who Jackie Robinson will get a chance to learn about him now.
They could have played “Let me play with your poodle” by Lightning Hopkins, “Open the door Richard” by Count Basie, or “Blow Top Blues” with Dinah Washington and Lionel Hampton, all from 1947. So, yes, they are trying to get a younger audience in with the modern music at the end. Just sayin’.
The music was chosen because of the lines Jay-Z says” I father, I Brooklyn Dodger them, I jack, I Rob, I sin,Aw man I’m Jackie Robinson,Except when i run base I dodge the pin”.Jay-Z is also from Brooklyn like the Dodgers and The title of the song is “Brooklyn Goes Hard”. I mean people there is a method to the madness, like you think they just this particular for no reason? Jay-Z alone has at least 10 albums with number 1 singles on all them. You should least think about it before you assume it has nothing to do with the trailer.
Here is the point – rap music has itz place but NOT HERE. Plus, keep this in mind… Jayz’s music is for some, not for all. I agree that it does not belong in and around the making of this very important and historical film. This story has been a long time coming to film for the world to see. It deserves music that gleams on the times of this story.
I was an extra for shooting at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Al. It was like going back in time. Can’t wait for the movie!
JayZ’s music (rap) is out of place for this long time coming epic film. That is a no-brainer!
How can the “costumes”(wardrobe) look terrible when they are actual authentic pieces from that time period. This is a “period piece”, so rather than make costumes from scratch, they went on a long & hard search for the real things in order to most definitely get it right. The wardrobe , for the most part, is really nice.
As a child in the 80s I was the only Black kid on my Baseball team and experience racism in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. The sport allow me to see a diversed world and took the bad with the good and that’s playing Baseball which very few blacks today have interest in the sport. I hope my program ” Bring Baseball Back” and the minor and major league players in have on my staff can bring the kids in the Inner City and teach them the game. I feel with the struggles that Mr. Robinson have to face we as Blacks don’t give a lot of attention to the sport. We look at our kids in the Inner city and autmatically think our kids can only play Basketball and Football. Why not Baseball? This is a great film and great timing with the diversity of the world and giving the history of a iCON. I hope African American Men give the kids a glove, Bat and ball for Christmas one day!
Not all of us “young people” like rap. Personally, I hate it and I was way more interested in the soundtrack songs at the beginning. That rap song towards the end made me nauseous.