Pardon me the uncharacteristic detour into nerdgasm, but: while I think the marketing for this delicious slice of eighties nostalgia has been pretty bang on, I do think they’ve missed a trick by not releasing a trailer cut to The Darkness’ immaculate, Queen-riffing theme song.
There could be no more appropriate heirs apparent to the bombast of Queen at their Flash Gordon-iest camp zenith, and this track took me from “curiously excited” to “hell fucken yeah” in just over three minutes.
Time will prove whether the flick is up to the dazzling visions of my inner seven-year-old’s expectations, but Travis Knight has game and it’s feeling like this might be the perfect flick to eat a fistful to and regress into the world of high stakes dopiness that is Masters of the Universe at its finest.
They should have re-dubbed that sex creep Leto with Frank Langella, though.
Anyway, here’s my trailer re-edit.