Wednesday
23Jul2008
Where Have I Seen That 'Jennifer's Body' Poster Before?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 5:40PM
I was excited to see the new poster for
Jennifer's Body over at
First Showing this afternoon. It's the new
horror flick written by
Diablo Cody and casts
Megan Fox as some sort of naked high school sex
cannibal. But then
Filmonic noticed a striking similarity between
the Jennifer's Body poster and a new poster for the HBO series
True Blood, which was released last week. As
you can see, we're going to have a new poster for Jennifer's Body pretty
soon.
Lost in all of this, though is the attribution of a fairly iconic picture of Angelina Jolie, and since Megan Fox is basically Angelina 2.0, I thought I'd share this picture, which as you can see, is clearly the precursor to both posters.
The shame of it is, it's a cool concept no matter who uses it, but two posters in the same 14-day span is a little much. Incidentally, Jennifer's Body hits theaters next year, with Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfried in a co-leading role. Maybe they'll ditch this poster for a few months and bring it back after the holidays.
Reader Comments (5)
There is a slight but big difference with the posters, the Trueblood one has vampire teeth in it.
Origionality in Hollywood these day's, isn't most of there idea's old tv show or shows from other countries that are made into movies. i am still waiting for Carebear's the awakening.
Megan Fox, lets put her in more movies, I mean, she can act and she is pretty.
ANGELINA JOLIE HAS IT ALL: 3 Golden Globes, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1 Oscar, kudos for A MIGHTY HEART and CHANGELING. Belle of the Ball 2007 & 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Kickass action hero (does her own stunts, including riding motorcycles & flying planes). Voted most beautiful woman in the world several times. Sex Goddess. Humanitarian. U.N. Goodwill Ambassador since 2001. Philanthropist. Earth Mother. Brad Pitt's partner.
Megan Fox = Angelina wannabe. Changed her looks (including tattoos) trying to look like Angelina. Time will tell if she can even approach Angelina's accomplishments.
I saw the Jennifer's Body poster first, and the same week, I was looking through an Entertainment Weekly, and stumbled upon the True Blood poster, and thought "Hey... I've seen that before."
I don't really think it matters either way. Both of the posters are good enough, and they're both inspired by a great picture. Obviously, Jennifer's Body will most likely change their poster before release.
The one I'm going to opt for more is the True Blood one, only because the Jennifer's Body one is far too unrealistic looking. At least they used a real person for the True Blood shot. Look at how round "Megan Fox's" chin/jaw is!