We saw the previous teaser and now Twitch has the full international trailer for BLACK LIGHTNING, produced by Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, directed by Alexandr Voitinsky and Dmitriy Kiselev. I gotta admit, the VFX looks awesome. The duel between 2 flying cars in the end is kinda cool, the hero is flying on old rusty Volga, and the villain is flying on luxury Mercedes.The movie was made with a budget of only $8 Million and if it’s a big hit in Russia, who knows, we might see it here in the U.S. hopefully next year, either that or an American remake which I think should star Hayden Christensen cause that Russian kid sure looks a lot like Annakin. Check out the trailer after this jump…
This is a story of Moscow University’s student who becomes the owner of ordinary from the first sight, been-used, but… able to fly “Volga” car. With this car he will be able to not only avoid Moscow traffic jams, but unexpectedly for himself turn to city’s defender, mysterious fighter against Evil.
I remember in my previous interview with Bekmambetov, this is how he described the movie..
it’s called BLACK LIGHTNING, a movie I produced with my friends in Russia. Universal financed it and we’ll distribute it globally. It’s the first Russian superhero movie… a movie about Russian student.. suddenly he found his shitty car can fly. So he become superhero to save people secretly. There’s humor in it. This is a shitty car. He’s ashamed that he had his car. His father gave him the car, he doesn’t have money too.. but suddenly he has a powerful tool that will fight.
BLACK LIGHTNING opens in Russia on December 31st, 2009
