TRAILERS
See a Trailer for 3D Disaster 'Empires of the Deep' with Olga Kurylenko
by Alex Billington
October 23, 2012
Source: The Playlist
"When Myth and Legend collide, the War of the Abyss begins." After the success of Avatar in China, the country when nuts for 3D cinema, creating the buzzed-about 3D Sex And Zen. Following in the footsteps of those two, another crazy creation was this, a $100 $130 million 3D underwater epic called Empires of the Deep. The project was apparently a huge disaster, kept running over its budget, losing stars, and in the end was made, but not to great results. The Playlist has found the first trailer and it's rather trippy and epic and crazy, to say the least. Olga Kurylenko stars as a mermaid, joined by Steve Polites and Maxx Maulion.
Here's the official trailer for Michael French's Empires of the Deep, found on Twitch via The Playlist:
For thousand of years, legends of beautiful mermaids have enchanted people from all over the globe. Their fascinating and mysterious world has always captured our imagination. What secrets lurk beneath the depths? And why do beautiful mermaids seduce human men? Set in a mythical world, Empires of the Deep is the story of an unlikely love story between a young human and a mermaid. The movie was directed by (or the person who receives the credit is) Michael French (Heart of a Dragon), from a screenplay by Randall Frakes (Blowback, Stealing Candy) based on a story by Jiang Hongyu. As others have said, it's unlikely this will ever get a theatrical release in the US, but it'll probably make its way over here in some form eventually.
42 Comments
1
eeeek it was ok at first then by the end my face melted off
Brandon V. Fletcher on Oct 23, 2012
2
Isn't this the Avatar sequel.
j2k on Oct 23, 2012
3
everything seems very dreamlike to me.....but, aside from some striking visuals (and those were hit-and-miss) this doesn't look like it'd be very good.
beevis on Oct 23, 2012
4
100 million and that's what they come up with?
RDG on Oct 23, 2012
5
It's so bad that the film-hipsters would love it. I smell cult-classic.
slowpokee on Oct 23, 2012
6
It might actually be a cult classic since nobody seems to have proclaimed it to be one before it even came out...
BloodwerK on Oct 23, 2012
7
Wow I couldnt even get thru the trailer, fx look horrible! Major suckage!
bjallman on Oct 23, 2012
9
look like a syfy movie, not even a good one.
truong18 on Oct 23, 2012
10
oh no! CRAB PEOPLE!!!!!
DoomCanoe on Oct 23, 2012
11
yikes... a 100 million dollar student reel.
Mayor McCheese on Oct 23, 2012
12
you need your knife? check chains? check rocks? check lazerbeams? check murmaider! murmaider! murmaider!
Richie G on Oct 23, 2012
14
If nothing else, this trailer inspired me to youtube that Dethklok vid. Thanks, t'is great when someone recognises a quote
Richie G on Oct 24, 2012
16
Clash/Wrath of the Mermaids!
well then.. on Oct 23, 2012
17
Were the SFX made in MS Word?
Zeeshopper on Oct 23, 2012
19
What happened to her career?I liked her in Centurion even though the movie was kinda meh...still have to see Seven Psychopaths...
a dude on Oct 23, 2012
20
$100 million?? Man, it looks so cheap...
leinergroove on Oct 23, 2012
21
how does one spend 100 million $ and gets effects this crappy? only thing I enjoyed was the LOtR soundtrack, end of all things.
Ege Sönmez on Oct 23, 2012
22
you need your knife? check chains? check rocks? check lazerbeams? check Murmaider! Murmaider! Murmaider!
Richie G on Oct 23, 2012
23
put this in twice and can't delete for some reason
Richie G on Oct 24, 2012
25
The Monster Roll is much better than this
nubie on Oct 23, 2012
26
What is this? 1999?
Jordan on Oct 23, 2012
27
I was sorto digging it there for about 3 seconds then it started to look like a computer game from the Sega Megadrive.
Carpola on Oct 23, 2012
28
APRIL FOOOOOOLLLLLLSSSSSS!!!!
BiII_CLinton on Oct 23, 2012
29
That must have been one heck of a $129 million dollar party!
LMA on Oct 23, 2012
30
u got tat right.. Spend it all on parties and nothing to make the movies lol
stevenfreestyler on Oct 24, 2012
31
Did anyone else see the Scorpion King cameo? Pure poo poo.
JohnQuintin on Oct 23, 2012
32
CHeEsy!!!
The Truth on Oct 23, 2012
33
even the shittiest student films look epic compared to this turd
hrv on Oct 24, 2012
34
LMAO a hundred and thirty million?? Where is it? I'm sure the producers are fugitives now since they must have taken off with it and left the country.
Baron the Curse on Oct 24, 2012
35
this is how avatar will look to us in 10 years 🙂
bigbob on Oct 24, 2012
36
this is how avatar will look to us in 10 years back 🙂
stevenfreestyler on Oct 24, 2012
37
This. Looks. God. Awful.
Clayton on Oct 24, 2012
39
Seriously? This movie costs 130 US million dollars to make? I find it hard to believe. Transformers part 1 were somewhat lesser / costs the same to make but it had superb special effects far greater than this...
stevenfreestyler on Oct 24, 2012
40
That, ladies & gentlemen, is what we here in the industry call a 'cluster fuck!'
Akira Money ♕ on Oct 26, 2012
41
I was soooooooooooo excited about Olga being a mermaid 🙁 Why'd this have to happen
booooo on Nov 5, 2012
42
I love that out of all the general awfulness this movie seems to be full of, they couldn't even pick a decent, non-cheesy font
booooo on Nov 5, 2012
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