Paul Rudd and Jack Black push Hollywood reboot culture to its snake-eating-its-own-tail (quite literally) extreme in the new trailer for Anaconda.
In this remake/reimagining/whatever-you-want-to-call-it of the 1997 action flick of the same name, Rudd and Black play Griff and Doug, respectively, a pair of flailing film lovers who have always dreamed of making their own version of the original Anaconda. When their efforts to secure a $2 million bank loan to finance the project are — unsurprisingly — denied, they decide to shoot the film indie style on a shoestring budget.
They hire a snake handler, a river boat, and head out to the actual Amazon rainforest where, of course, things quickly deteriorate after their large and creepy — but ostensibly non-lethal — snake is accidentally chopped up by a boat propeller. Determined to see the project out, the ragtag crew ventures into the jungle, where soon enough they find themselves being pursued by an actual, enormous, man-killing anaconda.
Violent hijinks ensue, including one bit where a presumably dead Doug is dressed up as bait to lure the snake out so the others can get back safely to the boat. (Spoiler alert: Doug isn’t actually dead.) And all of it is inevitably set to a dramatic remix of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” centered around the — you guessed it — “My anaconda don’t want none” line.
Along with Black and Rudd, Anaconda will star Thandie Newton, Steve Zahn, Selton Mello, and Daniela Melchior. The movie was directed by Tom Gormican, who co-wrote the script with Kevin Etten. Anaconda is set to arrive in theaters on Christmas Day.
From Rolling Stone US
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