There’s no mistaking the look of a Terry Gilliam movie. The Brothers Grimm High Def Trailer is finally available. The film follows Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as hucksters who have built up a reputation as monster-fighters, only to encounter a village that is truly having a problem with a haunted forest.
Two warnings: You’ll need to download the new QuickTime 7 in order to see the trailer, and it would be best to stick with the smallest resolution file unless you have an absolute flamethrower of a computer! I tried the 1080 pixel version and then the 720 pixel, and in each case it was like watching a filmstrip. The 480 looks just fine.
This is the first Terry Gilliam film since his Don Quixote film was abandoned in mid-production due to monumental problems. What’s funny about that situation was that the crew doing the behind the scenes “making of” film had so much interesting footage about the disaster that they were able to turn it into a critically acclaimed documentary.