Back in September, we shared the first trailer from Brian Helgeland’s 42, the Jackie Robinson biopic that looks … well, pretty much like every other Hollywood biopic made in the last 10 years, but it looks good, especially if you give a shit about its content. Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey! Christopher Meloni from ‘Law & Order’ as Leo Durocher! Jackie Robinson with a low, grizzled voice, instead of sounding like every black comedian’s white guy voice like he did in real life!
Today, we get a second, extended trailer, and while it features a lot of the same footage as the first — the stuff set to Jay-Z’s ‘Brooklyn (We Go Hard)’ is essentially unchanged — it’s got a lot of new stuff, too, including ‘Firefly’ star Alan Tudyk as racist-ass Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Ben Chapman. Zoe would be so disappointed in you, assuming that 1940s baseball and 2500s soft sci-fi are the same.
Pretty excited to see this, I’ve gotta say. In a perfect world, this will remind Harrison Ford that he can act, and he’ll stop miring in Indiana Jones re-boot attempts and letting Calista Flockhart choose his projects.



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I’ll watch the hell out of this movie!
Moneyball taught me it’s ok to be excited as hell that a baseball movie looks legit good again.
Oscar bait. I’ll watch it.
I think Ford actually looks unbelievable in it (in a bad, he’s way too recognizable, way). But I might see it anyway.
Forget about Harrison Ford actually trying again: I would love to be able to at least understand him again. He put his voice setting on “gravelly mumble” 20 years ago and never turned it off.
Of all the detergents on the market, Racist Wash™ has unrivaled bleaching power!
outstanding
slow clap.
You’d think Alan Tudyk has been in enough memorable roles for me to remember his real name, but you’d be wrong. He will always be Steve the Pirate to me.
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I love how this whole thing is basically just “Canada: We’re better than you.”
Now post some Hinterland Who’s Whos.
Well dammit, now I don’t hate everything about Quebec.
Every marketing person in Hollywood:
“We have to make another movie trailer? QUICK. SOMEONE FIND ME A JAY-Z SONG WITH A CATCHY BEAT!”
Sports films more often than not are pretty disappointing to sports fans.
As are films that recycle familiar historical storylines.
As are Oscar bait films.
Called third strike.
I have high hopes for this. Hopefully it doesn’t break down like “Red Tails.”
Lucas Black’s in it? When do they play football?
(Because he plays football in the 3 movies I know him from, Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights, and Jarhead)
Looks kinda lame and formulaic to me.
Of course, I’m the guy with the Ty Cobb avatar, so maybe I’m unconsciously biased against Jackie Robinson biopics.