Aussie accents in a Hollywood trailer: TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN

So often you’ll hear Australian film enthusiasts and aspiring independent filmmakers complain about the poor state of the Australian film industry and proclaim that, perhaps if Aussie films were a little more ‘Hollywood’, more people would care about seeing them.

They are wrong.

Mate, this, is what happens when they take the Australian outback, our accent, our ‘brand’ of acting and our production values and try to wrap them in a Hollywood blanket. We end up with a trailer (and therefore likely a film) that’s trying too hard to be something it can never be. It’d be nice if the film actually delivers, but all we have to go by is this trailer and, well… perhaps just read the book again for desired results? We all read it in school, right?

Written by John Marsden’s and based on his hugely successful teen novel of the same title, Tomorrow, When The War Began is the directorial debut for Aussie screenwriter Stuart Beattie who is actually responsible for writing such Hollywood films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. If these aren’t good enough clues to make you weary of the trailer you are about to see, you deserve the punishment.

Tomorrow, When The War Began will be released on our cinema screens 2 September 2010.

Based on John Marsden’s popular and critically- acclaimed novel which has sold over 628, 863 copies in Australia alone, THE AGE refers to the series of books as “The best series for Australian teens of all time”

TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN’ follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no-one saw coming. Cut off from their families and their friends, these eight extraordinary teenagers must somehow learn to escape, survive and fight back.

source: slashfilm

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