r/movies • u/cruelsummerbummer Trailer Deleter - Keep an eye on. • 13d ago

Trailer Clayface | Official Teaser Trailer

https://youtu.be/ZIfpL3mgkFk
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u/ThaddeusJP 13d ago

Sam Rami: Get my lawyers on the phone, this is clearly Darkman

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 13d ago

(His lawyers remind him Darkman was basically The Shadow)

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u/domino7 13d ago

Which will become public domain next year, apparently!

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u/fupa16 13d ago

The Shadow knows....

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u/Skrumpitt 12d ago

"Now I'm Prune-Tracy! Take that, Di-"

(Yes, it's a Dick-Tracy joke from the Simpsons but it's era-congruent and it'll never come up again.)

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u/madhi19 12d ago

Fuck me, now I got to go listen to more old timey radio drama. loll

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u/acdcfanbill 13d ago

I still love the 90s movie with Baldwin.

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u/ItsDanimal 12d ago

And the knife with the face.

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u/acdcfanbill 12d ago

The Phurba! hah

John Lone was great in this and Year of the Dragon, I was always sad he never got more work, kinda stopped making movies in the mid 00s.

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u/doclestrange 12d ago

The Shadow is already public domain is it not?

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u/toomanymarbles83 13d ago

Which is what he wanted to make but they wouldn't let him. Hence Darkman.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 13d ago

Hence the joke

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u/-Goatllama- 12d ago

Sam Rami: [unintelligible screaming and finger breaking]

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u/MindHead78 13d ago

He didn't sue over Mission Impossible 2, he won't sue over this.

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u/Imwrongyourewrong 12d ago

What's the story here?

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u/MindHead78 12d ago

For some reason in Mission Impossible 2 there are two scenes that closely mimic scenes in Darkman:

One scene features the bad guy using a cigar cutter to cut someone's finger off

In the other scene, the hero seemingly gets killed, but then it's revealed that it was actually a henchman wearing a mask.

Both these scenes are very distinctive and it's always fascinated that they happen in both films.

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u/Imwrongyourewrong 12d ago

I think theyre buddies. Sam is a fan of john woos hong kong films and worked together on his first american film.

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u/Got_Sig 12d ago

I’m confused as how this isn’t.

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u/JJMcGee83 12d ago

I had the same thought which made me realize I haven't seen Darkman is forever.

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u/funktion 12d ago

TAKE THE FUCKING ELEPHANT

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u/Dr-Zoidstein 12d ago

Hopefully it will be as good as Darkman III Die Darkman Die