Fans of Stephanie Myer going to see The Hunger Games this weekend will be pleased to see the first teaser for The Host. Those of us sitting out the plight of Katniss and her Battle Royale-lite will be able to catch a glimpse of the trailer thanks to Yahoo! Movies.
The Host is the film version of Myers' post-Twilight sci-fi novel, adapted and directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Jake Abel, William Hurt, Frances Fisher, and Max Irons. It will be in theaters March 29, 2013.
The teaser is clearly going for a shocking false-utopia message with a Social Network style photo montage capping it off, but, you know, with extraterrestrial implications. Listen, I don't think it's a rip off of the Social Network trailer. I think it's a rip off of the Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Social Network trailers combined, with Invasion of the Body Snatchers style aliens replacing RE's zombies for good measure.
Rip-off or not, the teaser is impressively put together (sans those cheesy photos, which lack David Fincher's sensitive touch) and the teenage girl in me is really digging the post-apocalyptic synopsis. So long as there's no sparkling vampires or shirtless werewolf hunks, I'm down.
And while you're still here, why not compare the RE: Apocalypse and The Social Network trailer with The Host's teaser and test my theory?
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