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It was supposed to be in theaters right now

posted 8 years ago by WalterWheyt
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It blows my mind that this movie was originally supposed to be in theaters since almost 2 weeks by now but after postponing the release, we still don't even have a trailer yet.

Its really worrisome to be honest.

I was really looking forward to this movie. But everything ive seen and heard so far does not give me much confidence.
Its not even that i think its going to be bad. I just have a feeling that it will not have much in common with the story of the book.

I would have loved a "Hell or high water" type of beginning for this series. Smaller budget, character driven, an endless wasteland filled with wonder and horror, myth and misery.

Hopefully we will get a trailer soon that restores my faith in this movie.

[–] Arm_the_Masses 8 years ago

So I went through some recent / coming movies. Most from Sony, some from other companies.

I looked at when their trailers debuted in relation to when the movies are/were set to open and worked out the aproximate gap between trailer and release. Now I didn't bother doing this for very many films as - well - I have other things in life to do. But from they few I picked out I'd say we should expect a trailer for TDT within the next month or so.

Title 1st Trailer Premiere Difference
Passengers* 20. september 23. december 3 months
Rogue 1 7. april 14. december 8 months
Deadpool 4. august 11. February 7 months
Inferno* 9. may 28. october 5 months
Trainspotting 2* 2. november 2. march 4 months
Spiderman Homecoming* 8. december 6. july 7 months
Life* 30. october 24. march 5 months
The Dark Tower* ??? 27. July

*movies being produced by Sony

Try and forget that this movie was set to be released in February as having any bearing on when we should be getting a trailer. They are planning their marketing campaign with the July 28th release in mind. The avarage difference is 5.5 months (yeah, looking at just 7 data points is useless, but it is what it is). 5.5 months tracked back from the end of July is the middle of February.

So us not having a trailer yet isn't really THAT strange and I don't understand how anyone can jump to any conclusions about us not having a trailer yet should somehow mean that the movie sucks.

Edit: Just went back to look here and the formatting looks awful. Sorry about that. Hope it is still decipherable.

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