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Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth
This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. Old-heads like me may recall it as a bad mid-90s cyberpunk film (written by William Gibson!) about a data courier whose brain is the storage medium, but who had to have his childhood memories erased to make space for the work. I hadnt seen it since I was a kid, and you know what? Its still not a good movie. But if you ignore the plot holes, mostly awful acting, and terrible pacing, its at least very cool to look at. Also, I had totally forgotten about Ice Ts turn as J-Bone, leader of the Lo-Tek underground. It was fun enough, but it was weird to hear the theater audience erupt with applause at the end, though, knowing how it was received almost three decades ago.At least some of the movies below, from the last weeks worth of trailers, are bound to be better.A Minecraft MovieJack Blacks Steve gets a backstory in the latest Minecraft trailer. The trailer shows young Steve (you can tell hes young because his beard is brown at first) mining his way into the blocky game world, where he discovers he can build anything he imagines, as long as its made with blocks. Plus we get a look at Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Eugene Hansen, who all find themselves dropped into this world with a now-much-older Steve (who now has a gray beard to show the passage of time).You can catch A Minecraft Movie in theaters on April 4th. Then you can follow it up with a Minecraft theme park in 2026 or so. ElioThe new teaser trailer from Pixars Elio lets us know the film is still alive and well. The movie comes from Coco screenwriter Adrian Molina, who co-directs alongside Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian. It features the voice of Yonas Kibreab as Elio, a child who gets abducted by aliens and pretends to be Earths leader. If Coco is any indication, I expect Ill be openly sobbing at the end. Its out on June 13th.Alien: EarthThe FX spinoff Alien: Earth is on its way in summer 2025, when it promises to finally* show us what it might be like to see xenomorphs on our planet. Theres little revealed here apart from the release timeframe and that, as The Verges Andrew Webster remarks, the aliens are still very shiny.*Unless you count the Aliens vs. Predator films.Star Wars Outlaws: Wild CardStar Wars Outlaws is getting its first DLC in the form of Wild Card, a storyline that brings Lando Calrissian into the game. If you havent been playing the game lately, maybe hopping into a space battle with Hans old buddy will draw you back in. Wild Card is available now for $14.99.How to Train Your DragonOh hey, look, a live-action version of an animated movie. How to Train Your Dragon will go head-to-head with Elio when its released on June 13th.
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