The latest Tomorrowland trailer has bathtub rockets, fighting robots, assassins in creepy masks, and all manner of shifting gears and brass countdown clocks. And it actually tells us a lot more about the movie.
To be fair, Disney’s new action/adventure is still rather vague. We know that the near-future is messed up, nigh apocalyptic, and that the bright and wonderful future is thisclose to being lost forever. So, some sort of retired/exiled inventor (George Clooney) teams up with a troubled kid (Britt Robertson) via teleporting pins and the aforementioned technology to go back to Tomorrowland.
“What you saw,“ Clooney tells Robertson, ”was a place where the best and the brightest people in the world came together to actually change it.” But now it’s in danger—possibly from Hugh Laurie’s shady character—and with every second that ticks away, this future land and tomorrow time becomes less and less of a possbility. Does this movie feature time travel or alternate universes, or just some awesome simulations? Hard to say, but this is the most engaging trailer yet:
Tomorrowland comes to theaters May 22.
This is much better than what I’ve seen before, in that now I have an inkling of what the movie might be about – but I’m still unclear on the Tomorrowland connection. All of Disney’s movies that have been based on park rides have had some connection, however faint, to the ride itself; one hopes the same will happen with Tomorrowland.
The pin itself isn’t even a Tomorrowland connection, as they only created a version of it in 2013 – it seems like it could be an old logo, but it’s not.
As someone somewhere else said, I want a movie about Disney’s Churro Carts
@1 Huh, I thought there were a ton of connections. The future city in the trailer is Tomorrowland. The most direct reference is the Space Mountain facade at 1:15. I think the round buildings are also deliberately reminiscent of the Carousel of Progress /Innoventions building. The rails curving around the city are all the Futuristic Transport designs (Monorail/People Mover/Autopia). The rocket is the old Rocket to the Moon ride. And that’s just what I picked out, I’m sure Disneyana people probably can point to more.
Ellisande @3 – Good catch! Those shots were too fast for me. Cool, I’m looking forward to it more, especially with Rocket to the Moon. I wouldn’t mind a Rocket Rods reference, too, especially combined with People Mover somehow… :D
Atlas Shrugged with jet packs? Dig it, man.
Looks great to me. I love the retro-future look and feel of it. It reminds me of being nine years old again and seeing all the futuristic things at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. I can’t wait to see the movie.
I was just at Disney World’s Tommorrowland a few weeks ago, and asked one of the kids in a shop if they had the pins like in the movie trailer. He said no, but he hoped they would soon, because more and more people were asking for them. And he said that scenes for the movie had been filmed at Disney World. I got the impression that in the story, one of the investors or sponsors of the people in the movie who were trying to build a better future was Walt Disney himself. If Disney does appear in the movie, I wonder if they got Tom Hanks to play him again, like he did in Saving Mr. Banks?
Looks good.
@Patches:
Atlas Shrugged with jet packs? Dig it, man.
My mind went straight to Bioshock when I saw the trailer :).
AlanBrown @6 – The pin in the film was created for the film, but it did become an actual pin. Only 4,000 were produced, and it was only available to those who played an alternate reality game at a Disney fan event in 2013. You can read more about the game, and see a close-up of the pin, here.
Was… um, was that the Eiffel Tower at the end? That became the rocket? Because if so… cool.