If there’s anything more bizarre than this trailer for the $90 million Hungarian Christmas film “Nutcracker 3D” (or, literally, “Nutcracker and the Rat King”) starring John Turturro, Nathan Lane, and Elle Fanning and directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy (“Tango and Cash” and writer of Andrei Tarkovsky classics “Andrei Rublev” and “Ivan’s Childhood”) … then we’re not sure if we want to hear about it.
The film, apparently a musical (which, to be fair, is mentioned in the director’s IMDB bio so take this with a grain of salt as the trailer makes no indication of any of this, although considering the musical source material, it’s entirely possible), will follow the classic tale of a young girl who is given a Nutcracker toy, it comes to life, they fight off the rat army together and dance at the end. Seeing as the Rat King is in the title and played by Turturro, and both him and one of the young protagonists are riding a motorized air-scooter with machine gun turrets in the trailer, there might be some embellishing going on here, such as giving the Rat King a beefier role.
Just another Christmas movie that, as insane as it all is, we’ll probably forget come next year when another handful of Christmas movies come our way. The only reason to follow this one is to see if it even makes one-fourth of its budget back. Check out the trailer after the jump.
