‘The Revenant’ Trailer: He Was Buried Right
Fucking. Yes. The latest jam from the mind behind Birdman looks pretty goddamn thrilling. Like, white-knuckled, pinched-genitals type thrilling.
This isn’t the first trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, but this one has much more plot. In fact you may not even want to watch it. I’ve been sold ever since I heard the Birdman director had gone $30 million over budget, apparently in an attempt to shoot the entire thing sequentially using only natural light using the same seamless, one-shot editing trick as in Birdman. (He also had to move sets to find snow. Thanks, global warming.)
In the film, “inspired by true events,” DiCaprio plays real-life 19th-century frontiersman Hugh Glass (not to be confused with Hugh Jass, Harry Seaward’s cousin), who’s attacked by a bear and betrayed by his buddy, played by Tom Hardy, who had such honest lips. From the looks of it, Glass has to fight every animal in the Old West to get back to his son. “I’m back son. I made you this scimitar out of dead snapping turtles.”