Franklyn is an upcom­ing British fan­tasy film fol­low­ing a dark and dystopian theme. The movie is set between the par­al­lel worlds of con­tem­po­rary Lon­don and the futur­is­tic faith dom­i­nated metrop­o­lis of Mean­while City. Franklyn offers a glimpse into the inner work­ings of fate and fol­lows the tales of four characters:

• Jonathan Preest (Ryan Phillippe) is a masked athe­ist detec­tive search­ing for his neme­sis, Mean­while City’s dan­ger­ous leader.
• Emilia (Eva Green) is a beau­ti­ful young art stu­dent whose con­duct­ing ever more dan­ger­ous art projects.
• Milo (Sam Riley) is a heart­bro­ken thirty-something yearn­ing for the purity of first love.
• Peter Esser (Bernard Hill) is a bro­ken man, search­ing des­per­ately for his miss­ing son amongst London’s homeless.

Even though the trailer isn’t a work of art, the film has caught my inter­est. Franklyn pre­miered at the 52^nd Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val on 16 Octo­ber 2008. The film will hit the­aters in the UK on 20 Feb­ru­ary 2009. A release date for the United States has yet to be set. Of course, you can also visit the offi­cial site to stay up to date.

Almost a year ago I wrote about the plot and it seems that they haven’t changed much. Now there’s a trailer online and you can look for your­self. From what I can sur­mise, this movie is even sicker than the first. Crank 2: High Volt­age has some nice scenes as evi­denced by the trailer. Have fun!

X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine Teaser Poster

Finally, the X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine trailer has arrived in glo­ri­ous quick­time. Of course, this trailer has been all over the net for ages in a crappy qual­ity. Now you can enjoy it in high def­i­n­i­tion. The film is set to be released on May 1, 2009, and I’m already look­ing for­ward to see­ing it.

This movie tells the story of Wolverine’s past and the omi­nous Weapon X pro­gram which should get inter­est­ing. Lots of other mutants will make an appear­ance, espe­cially Vic­tor Creed (Sabre­tooth). Oth­ers are Dead­pool, Beak, Gam­bit, Agent Zero, Sil­ver Fox, Cyclops, Kestrel, and a few oth­ers, I guess. To be hon­est, I didn’t like the trailer too well but they could’ve done much worse.

Finally, the trailer for the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still has been made avail­able. In the orig­i­nal movie, a fly­ing saucer lands in Wash­ing­ton DC. An alien being called Klaatu has come to Earth to warn its lead­ers not to take their con­flicts into space. Oth­er­wise, the will face dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences. I don’t want to delve into the story because I don’t know the orig­i­nal movie. But I’m sure to watch this one when it hits the­aters on Decem­ber 2^nd this year. With Jen­nifer Con­nelly and Keanu Reeves in the lead, this should turn out to be inter­est­ing. The trailer is avail­able in glo­ri­ous Quick­time over at Apple. Watch it, it looks really decent.

This is one of those films that hat been com­ing for­ever it seems. Finally, after two teasers we got our­selves a nice lit­tle present in the form of a real trailer. Baby­lon A. D. is a sci­ence fic­tion film that plays in the near future. Toorop (Vin Diesel) is a mer­ce­nary who has to escort a woman from Rus­sia to Canada. What he doesn’t know is that Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) is car­ry­ing an organ­ism in her that ever­body wants to get their hands on.

Dur­ing pro­duc­tion the crew did encounter some dif­fi­cul­ties and did run over the bud­get. Film­ing was com­pleted more than a year ago and now the first full-length trailer has been released. You can watch it here if you so choose. The flick is avail­able in higher res­o­lu­tion over at IGN. If you want to check out the teaser trail­ers first, check this site out. I gotta say, it looks quite promis­ing and may be well worth watch­ing at the theater.

In late Feb­ru­ary this year, Trans­porter 3 has been announced. Once again, Jason Statham will play Frank, the deliv­ery dri­ver who will trans­port any pack­age any­where, no ques­tions asked. No plot details have been released yet, although Prison Break’s T-Bag, Robert Knep­per, will be the vil­lain. It has come to my ears that the teaser trailer has already hit the web – and it sure looks good. A higher qual­ity ver­sion of the trailer can be viewed at French site AlloCiné. I’m really look­ing for­ward to watch­ing this movie. It’s all about the action, baby!