Trailer: The Informant!
By Craig Kennedy - June 30th, 2009; 4:36 pm
Apple has the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! Click the image to see it for yourself.
Based on a true story, The Informant! stars Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, a corporate whistleblower whose own secrets complicate the FBI’s case against agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland.
It opens October 9, 2009.
Update: Stream the trailer from YouTube after the jump.
Filed under: Trailers
Tags: Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, The Informant
That’s quite a moustache.
Not many men these days pull off the lip bush well. Matt Damon does not.
I knew it was a dark comedy, but I wasn’t expecting Damon’s role to be the equivalent of a character from a Will Ferrell film.
lol…is that a good thing or a bad thing in your book?
Looks good to me – now that whole story of Soderbergh going overboard on the Moneyball script makes more sense.
Great poster.
“lol…is that a good thing or a bad thing in your book?”
To be perfectly honest, I reserved further comment because I actually don’t know whether it is good or not.
Yeah, I enjoy Ferrell a lot. And I laughed at part of that trailer because it is exactly the type of dumb randomness that I enjoy (i.e. the narration of his tapes). But other parts seemed like an imitation of that type of act, a little too self-aware about the stupidity and without it being funny (“I told him the camera was in the lamp”). I worry whether Damon can pull-off such an act flawlessly. But then again, I enjoyed his comedic naiveté in Soderberg’s Ocean films a lot.
“Great poster.”
I wanted to say that it was creative, since I didn’t expect it.
But upon further thought, it does looks a little too much like the poster from Steve Carell’s THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, does it?
Haha, the moustache is quite a piece of work. I wonder if they got the Coen Brothers to consult on costuming and make-up for Damon’s character?
Yeah, Villalba, definitely shades of the Virgin in that poster. And the Will Ferrell comment is astute, although that character placed in a more straight setting could work well. The absurdity of someone that clueless could wear thin over the course of an entire film though. We’ll see if they can pull it off.
I’m blinded by Soderbergh. I predict awesomeness.
I’ve noticed a number of bloggers were expecting something more like The Insider when I thought it was understood all along this would be comic.
I think Matt Damon’s comic timing is criminally underused so I’m sorta looking forward to this now that I’ve seen the trailer.
“Corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other.”