Courtesy of ShockTillYouDrop, here is an early red-band trailer for the upcoming Karyn Kusama helmed, Diablo Cody scribed horror-comedy “Jennifer’s Body.”
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody and Johnny Simmons, the film follows the story of a popular but demonically possessed teenager (Fox) who starts to kill off her high school classmates while her nerdy best friend (Seyfried) attempts to thwart her ill-intentioned efforts and that of the Satan-worshiping emo rock band who transformed her friend.
The trailer, however, is not the same trailer which will hit theaters this weekend with “Bruno” though as noted by Kusama, Cody and Jason Reitman (who revealed on his Twitter of his involvement in the film’s trailer ) in their message to STYD:
“Fox is putting a trailer of ‘Jennifer’s Body’ in front of ‘Bruno’ this Friday. Great, right? Only problem is it’s not our trailer. It’s kind of a straight horror preview and while we’re sure it’ll appeal to many of you, we wanted to make sure you guys got to see our cut… Lets call it the “filmmaker’s cut”. We think it captures the comedy and scares of the horror films we grew up on – a kind of nostalgia for when horror films were fun. Can’t wait to show you the whole film… In the meantime, here’s the red band trailer we wanted our fans to see.” – Karyn, Diablo, and Jason
Are the trio of Kusama, Cody and Reitman possibly undermining the studio in releasing this trailer? Was the studio-made trailer so bad they had to preemptively release this to stop bad buzz? Or is it, as they claim, simply under-representative? Guess we’ll have to wait and see but the trailer at hand here certainly harks back to fun horror films of old and, at the same time, is run through with Cody-isms.
We read the script last year and loved its wickedly wry tone though fears have since come forth regarding Kusama’s direction. This may be personified by the possible inclusion of a make out scene between Fox and Seyfried whose two characters exhibited unconsummated sexual tension in the script. Judging for the trailer though, it looks like that has changed as has the name of the emo rock band who have evidently gone from Soft Shoulder to Low Shoulder. However, dialogue-wise expect the exact same. Megan Fox told MTV last month that because Diablo Cody was now an Oscar-winner, the script had to be followed to the letter (and you can hear some of the exact lines in the trailer like the “buff your situation”).
The trailer features “Cherrybomb” by the Runaways (all the rage these days we guess) and The Waitresses’ “I Know What Boys Like.” The film hits theaters September 18 which makes it a pretty good lock to appear at the Toronto International Film Festival which runs September 10-19.