Robert Pattinson as Dalí In Little Ashes Trailer
Yahoo! has premiered the trailer for Paul Morrison's latest, Little Ashes, about the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Robert Pattinson, aka Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter films aka Edward from Twilight, will fill the role of Dali, with Javier Beltran as García Lorca and Matthew McNulty as Buñuel. The film is slated for a limited release in the U.S. starting March 27, 2009.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. The way the trailer has been cut gives a strange tween bent to the whole thing, which is at once remarkable and off-putting. I mean, I know that there's an audience of Twilight fans out there to capitalize on with Pattinson's involvement, but why run the risk of alienating the moviegoers that the film will actually play to?
Also, there's a bevy of Dalí films in the works still, which currently all sound more appealing than what this latest trailer is proposing to offer: Al Pacino in the title role and Cillian Murphy supporting in the Andrew Niccol-directed Dalí & I: The Surreal Story; Goodbye Dalí, written by Yaniv Raz and actor Allan Rich in a comedic take on his real-life relationship with the surrealist, with Peter O'Toole reportedly to take on the title role; and finally Johnny Depp has also been rumored to be "auditioning" screenwriters for a screenplay on the life of Dalí, with Depp possibly taking on the role.
So what do you think? Who are you more excited to see play Salvador Dalí?
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