Tuesday
05Aug2008
'Mirrors' Featurette with Director Alexandre Aja
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12:53PM 
I've got a hunch that
Mirrors will do pretty well this
month. There seems to be a lot of positive response to the project in general -
more than the negative response, anyway - and the trailers and TV ads have
caught a lot of people's attention, and in a very competitive weekend, that's
always a big key.
Now, let's not get carried away: It's still sitting in
coach on August 15th, while Tropic Thunder and Star Wars: The Clone Wars get to
enjoy nice warm towels and their own delicious menus up in first class. I hear
that the flight attendants even go all the way in first class.Lucky bastards.
Still, it's not like this movie has the budgetary
concerns of Tropic Thunder, and good
horror movies, as The Strangers proved, have a way of finding an audience
that doesn't normally see the others, even
when history points out they don't normally do bang-up business in the summer.
I think this is an important movie for director
Alexandre Aja. He's shown me a good deal of inventiveness behind the camera and
among the Splat Pack group of directors, I think he has the highest ceiling. If
this movie's a hit, maybe he can get a terrific, original horror movie going
that has a solid budget, attracts big stars, and forces the studio to market it
aggressively. Or, he could go a completely different direction and do something
nobody expects. If Mirrors bombs, I think those things would be harder to
accomplish, but he has a real gift for telling these kinds of stories, so
hopefully it comes through for him.
In case you didn't know, Mirrors is another Asian horror
remake;
the original is a Korean film from 2003.
Kiefer Sutherland,
Amy Smart,
and
Paula Patton head up the cast, and here's a
brand new featurette from Mirrors featuring the French director. So at the very
least, even if you're not looking forward to the movie, you can mock his accent
and quote lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Reader Comments (2)
I m gladys and i send kiss to Alexandre and to Kiefer i m fans of the Mirror film, this is a very fantastic film. I like write song, poem and terror or suspens history. I am chilean how my president Michelle Bachellett, she is President of the Chile and she is fans of Terminator, i want say Arnold....the actor. I send congratulation for kiefer sutherlund, my favoryt actor and to director francés: alexandre aja. I wait that this words will be read for they,
BYE BYE KISSES gladys carrasco lepe my e-mail is: gladys13@live.cl
I will be very happy that yours respond my letter. Thank you.
I think that Mirror is very good film and that can perfectly to be based in real history, because exist in all the world similar situation of terror of the espant. In Mirror can to see imágenes interesting, very well do it.