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The Wasp Trailer
Guillem Morales‘ The Wasp (2024) movie trailer has been released by Shout! Studios. The Wasp trailer stars Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer.
Crew
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm wrote the screenplay for The Wasp.
Plot Synopsis
The Wasp (2024)’s plot synopsis: based on the 2015 stage play of the same name by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, “In this tense, twist-filled psychological thriller, Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer deliver captivating performances as two estranged friends who reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.”
More on the plot (spoilers):
“The film follows two estranged friends from school, Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), as they reunite after years of not seeing each other. Heather, a suburban housewife, has a strange proposition for Carla, a financially struggling grocery clerk. Heather needs someone to kill her abusive husband for her. Carla, a natural go-getter capable of taking care of business no matter how dangerous, mulls over the proposition. This leads to the two women planning the perfect murder together. The question is, no matter how well planned, things always tend to go sideways when you least expect it.”
Review
FilmBook writer Thomas Duffy reviewed The Wasp at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and had this to say:
In the end, The Wasp is one ride that is intensely fascinating to watch. As an acting exercise for Naomie Harris, the film crackles with tension as it asks the viewer to forgive her character’s actions because of the horrifying excesses of her past. Natalie Dormer more than holds her own beside Harris in a role that has many layers to it as well.
Read here the full The Wasp Movie Review.
On Movie Trailers
“A trailer (also known as a preview or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and technical work…Trailers consist of a series of selected shots from the film being advertised.
Since the purpose of [this advertisement] is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film but in abbreviated form and usually without producing spoilers.
For this purpose the scenes are not necessarily in the order in which they appear in the film. [This type of ad] has to achieve that in less than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the maximum length allowed by the MPA. Each studio or distributor is allowed to exceed this time limit once a year, if they feel it is necessary for a particular film.
In the United States there are dozens of companies, many of which are in Los Angeles and New York City, that specialize in the creation of film trailers. The trailer may be created at agencies (such as The Cimarron Group, MOJO, The Ant Farm, Ben Cain, Aspect Ratio, Flyer Entertainment, Trailer Park, Buddha Jones) while the film itself is being cut together at the studio.
Since the edited film does not exist at this point, the trailer editors work from rushes or dailies. Thus, the trailer may contain footage that is not in the final movie, or the trailer editor and the film editor may use different takes of a particular shot. Another common technique is including music on the trailer which does not appear on the movie’s soundtrack.
This is nearly always a requirement, as trailers and teasers are created long before the composer has even been hired for the film score—sometimes as much as a year ahead of the movie’s release date—while composers are usually the last creative people to work on the film
Trailers tell the story of a film in a highly condensed fashion to have maximum appeal. In the decades since film marketing has become a large industry, trailers have become highly polished pieces of advertising, able to present even poor movies in an attractive light.
The key ambition in trailer-making is to impart an intriguing story that gets film audiences emotionally involved.
Most trailers have a three-act structure similar to a feature-length film. They start with a beginning (act 1) that lays out the premise of the story. The middle (act 2) drives the story further and usually ends with a dramatic climax.
Act 3 usually features a strong piece of “signature music” (either a recognizable song or a powerful, sweeping orchestral piece). This last act often consists of a visual montage of powerful and emotional moments of the film and may also contain a cast run if there are noteworthy stars that could help sell the movie.”
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The Wasp (2024) Trailer
