Is this another hidden Ethan Hawke gem like Daybreakers? You’re watching Beyond The
Trailer’s review of Predestination...
Ah, Daybreakers. A really solid little vampire flick from Australian filmmakers Michael and
Peter Spierig which barely broke even at the box office back in 2009 before it was quickly
forgotten. Since then, Hawke’s experienced a bit of a career resurgence. He continued
with the horror genre, teaming up with longtime friend and former business associate Jason
Blum for surprise hits Sinister and The Purge. And he found critical success with another
longtime friend and collaborator, Richard Linklater. Before Midnight earned them, and
Julie Delpy, an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay - and now Boyhood looks
to be a major Oscar contender, already earning Hawke a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting
Actor. In fact, it even seemed for a few moments that Hawke would be Marvel’s new Doctor
Strange - but then he wasn’t. So thank goodness for his longtime friends, as reteams with
the Spierig brothers for Predestination. The small sci-fi film has already opened in its
native Australia, with a VERY slow rollout planned for the rest of its release - including,
at least here in the US, a digital day and date release. Is that exciting for Predestination,
or embarrassing? It’s a little too early in the digital revolution to tell... But while
Hawke brings the star power, rumor has it Australian actress Sarah Snook has the showier
role. Snook has also recently worked with Blum, starring in this summer’s Jessabelle
- which also had a limited theatrical release coupled with a digital day and date release.
That time it WAS embarrassing. Predestination is based on a very...bizarre short story by
Robert A Heinlein full of twists and turns - but if a tree does something weird in a
forest and there’s no one there to be disturbed by it, did it really do anything
at all? Which is a shame, because
these trees are, at least so far, pretty darn talented...