Leap Year trailer gives it all away

Leap Year trailer gives it all away

Nov 15

Do you think, when the screenwriter– in this case Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) finally finishes their work and gets it sold to a studio, that they actually believe it could something different and unique? Or does the studio insist on such predictable, been-there-seen-that material because they believe it’s fool proof (based on what, I do not know… Love Actually, maybe?)… I mean, after Slumdog Millionare you’d kind of expect something a little more insightful. And who know, perhaps Leap Year is. But the trailer doesn’t suggest so. And I haven’t double-checked, but maybe Leap Year was actually written before Slumdog? Or maybe I’m clutching at straws. There has to be some explanation.

Leap Year stars Amy Adams (Doubt, Julie & Julia) and Matthew Goode (Watchmen), comes out on January 8 and the trailer that sticks to the stock-standard for this genre is unfortunately embedded below. Be warned, if you are going to go see it, just about ever act, scene and twist is revealed–