Which is the PERFECT time to go see a movie like this. The Great Wall is supposed to come out February of next year. This concept is just silly enough to work, and I hope the actual movie lives up to the promise of this great trailer.Īlso, if you need a little more The Great Wall action, Entertainment Weekly has some pictures from the film (the best one is below) and a great interview about the film with Zhang Yimou that I highly recommend. Watch a film trailer for 'The Great Wall', starring Matt Damon and Andy Lau. Poster 1 for The Great Wall, which was released on February 17, 2017.The film, starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Hanyu Zhang and many more, currently has a total of twenty-two posters available. I’m pretty sure in real life the Great Wall was not erected to save humanity from monsters, but go ahead and get that adherence to reality out of my genre films. European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense. The trailer does have a bit of monster action, though. European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures. All the battle imagery is right on and exciting even without much monster action, which makes sense considering this was directed by Hero and House of Flying Daggers’ Zhang Yimou.
I’m so in the bag for this it’s not even funny. In another scene, soldiers activate large shearing mechanisms that slice the bodies of the Taotie into two as they try to climb over the walls. Hollywood’s Matt Damon and China’s Zhang Yimou were together in Beijing in July to announce the completion of the upcoming 150 million epic. The film contains several battle sequences where the mercenaries and the armies join forces in order to fight giant, ferocious creatures as they attack the city in swarms, trying to scale the walls. Bong Joon Ho’s Okja is happening, Nacho Vigalondo is making his Colossal, and now we have The Great Wall a gigantic Chinese production starring Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Effing Lau. The Great Wall is by far the largest-ever China/Hollywood co-produced film, and combines forces of the two powerhouse movie creators. Obviously, we have a lot of Kong and Godzilla and Pacific Rim stuff coming down the pike, but we no longer have to contend with just the big names. It is such a good time right now to be into giant monster movies.