Trailer Watch: Bullock Adapts Blind Side

by Anne Thompson
August 24, 2009 4:13 AM
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Hollywood was bound to make a movie of Michael Lewis's non-fiction book The Blind Side. The question is, what kind? I wish Steven Soderbergh were directing this Lewis movie (as long as he's not doing Moneyball) because he would bring the clear-eyed authenticity that made both Erin Brockovich and Traffic Oscar winners instead of soapy high-minded morality tales.

I'm assuming that this sudsy The Blind Side trailer is warping the message on this Sandra Bullock vehicle. The actress/producer was smart enough to grab this material. I'm not the only one who cried over the NYT Magazine true story, about a homeless lug of a black guy who is taken in by a rich evangelical white family and becomes a football star. Bullock pulled in John Lee Hancock, who wrote Perfect World and wrote and directed the baseball movie The Rookie. So hopefully ~~Fox~~ Warners will figure out how to fix this yucky marketing message. In other words: the movie (due November 20) could be better than this trailer.

[Hat tip: gawker.]

More: Genres, Headliners, Video, Comedy, Romance, Sandra Bullock, Trailers

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Dave Gregory | August 24, 2009 12:34 PMReply

Fox won't have to figure anything out regarding marketing. It's a Warner's release.

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