Fan-Made Trailer Double Feature: Paper ‘Prometheus’, Hot Dog ‘Dark Knight Rises’
By Angie Han/June 5, 2012 5:00 am EST
One of the aspects Fox’s real Prometheus trailer has going for it is its stunning, impeccably rendered special effects, so I’m pleasantly surprised to see that Betz’s much, much lower-rent paper version works as well as it does. Ridley Scott’s indelible imagery will be presented in glorious 3D when Prometheus opens this Friday, June 8, but it turns out it looks pretty striking in 2D as well. And that Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, and Noomi Rapace are still fantastic actors even in paper form.
Taking a much more absurdist approach to its inspiration is Sausage Party’s The Dark Knight Rises trailer, which follows the beats of the original only with grocery store hot dogs standing in for all the various characters. I think we may have covered this on Superhero Bits previously, but I couldn’t resist pairing it with paper Prometheus for a fan-made short-film double feature.
[via The AV Club]
Overall, the hot dogs make this a much sillier affair than the real gloom-and-doom version, but man, the close-ups of those googly eyes are freaking me out. All the weiners just look so dead inside. Christopher Nolan’s real, probably totally hot dog-free version of The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20.
