Cool First Poster for Magic Movie, Now You See Me!
Have you heard about this new heist slash magic movie, Now You See Me? Love the cool new poster. We haven’t had a good movie about magic and magicians since the one two punch of The Prestige and The Illusionist back in 2006. Both of those were set in the past when it took far less to dazzle an audience. Now You See Me is set in the here and now and makes use of all sorts of modern technology.
Synopsis: “The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts.
FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be…magic?
As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen’s spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.”
Now You See Me sports a really fine cast. In addition to the marquee names above, it also includes Isla Fisher (We love her), Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine and Dave Franco. It’s directed by Louis Leterriere which some are seeing as a positive sign but I’m not so sure. He’s got the action cred but he made such a mess out of the Clash of the Titans reboot that I can’t get excited about how he’ll handle the plot (especially considering there are about six writers credited with the script.) We’ll see. Now You See Me is scheduled to open January 2013.
