Promo Posters for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch.

Director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead 2005, 300) is banging out what looks to be the single most stylish looking American film I’ve ever seen with his upcoming Sucker Punch. From these promo posters alone, there’s a lot of anime/manga influences - booties, stockings, schoolgirls, and thigh-highs - which is more typical of an over-the-top Japanese movie, not the sort of thing that Hollywood producers are known for greenlighting.

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.

God, this looks and sounds freaking awesome. And I’m loving how much the girls look like anime. It’s like Strike Witches brought to life or something.

And here’s a group shot of the girls taken from Entertainment Weekly’s SDCC preview issue.

From left to right: Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Emily Browning, Scott Glenn, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung. If that isn’t an amazing roundup of über hotties, I don’t know what is.

[Via /Film]

Posted by brownkidd 22 July 6 , Comments