Subj : New trailer for The Rock and Chris Evans' festive action movie Re
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Date : Wed Jun 26 2024 15:15:05

New trailer for The Rock and Chris Evans' festive action movie Red One 
suggests it won't be a wonderful Christmas time

Date:
Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:09:05 +0000

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Will the trailer for The Rock's action comedy undo the damage caused by tales 
of troubled production?

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Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer for Red One , its festive-themed 
action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. The new movie , which 
will be released in theaters on November 15, is hoped to be the beginning of 
a brand new franchise that reimagines and has fun with various 
holiday-related mythologies. 

The film stars Johnson as Callum Drift, head of security at the North Pole. 
When Santa Claus  the Red One of the title, played by JK Simmons  is 
kidnapped, Drift must team up with infamous bounty hunter Jack O'Malley 
(Evans) to rescue Santa and save Christmas. The trailer's fun, although the 
sight of multiple evil snowmen with generous buttocks may give you nightmares 
like one of the best horror movies . Red One: what we know so far 

Amazon MGM Studios clearly has high hopes for Red One : it showed off footage 
from the movie at Las Vegas's CinemaCon earlier this year, urging attendees 
not to reveal the plot. But the movie hasn't been without its troubles. 

 Red One was originally planned for a 2023 Christmas release. Its delay was 
blamed on the writer's and actors' strikes, but according to The Wrap there's 
much more to it than that. The Wrap quotes "insiders" who claim that Johnson 
would turn up eight hours late to work and act in various unsavory ways on 
set; that a "perfect storm of problems" sent the budget into orbit; and that 
the shoot was plagued by problems stemming from the filmmakers' inexperience. 
And according to entertainment journalist Jeff Sneider , the film didn't come 
out last Christmas because it was "a big lump of coal... an unmitigated 
disaster" featuring leads with zero chemistry. 

Amazon has denied the allegations and also says that "our testing has been 
very strong  the reaction from CinemaCon speaks for itself". 

There's certainly a lot going on in the trailer, which features Krampus, the 
headless horseman and those aforementioned snow monsters. But visually it 
looks a lot more scary than you'd expect from the synopsis, and the vibe here 
seems as much Christmas horror movie think Violent Night as it is comedy. 

Horror comedy is a tough genre to pull off, especially if you're trying to 
create not just one of the best Christmas movies but what one of the 
trailer's YouTube commenters brilliantly calls "the Christmas Cinematic 
Universe". And with the release date some way off, it looks like it'll be a 
while before we know whether The Rock's been cooking up a Christmas cracker 
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