Get Your Super Bowl Trailers Here! New Spots for 'X-Men: Apocalypse' and 'Captain America: Civil War'
Football is obviously the main event on Super Bowl Sunday, but movie fans have a whole lot of reasons to watch the big game. Movie studios are taking advantage of the year’s biggest TV audience to hype some of their biggest films, including brand new spots for two upcoming Marvel films. Here’s a look at the biggest trailers to air on Sunday — we’ll be updating this post throughout the night.
X-Men: Apocalypse
It’s big purple Poe Dameron vs. slithery blue Katniss Everdeen in the latest trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. Oscar Isaac, who we last saw flying an X-Wing for the Resistance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, goes bad as the ultra-powerful mutant god Apocalypse in the final installment of the latest X-Men trilogy. The new spot, which aired during the Super Bowl, focuses on his almighty power, with new footage of the wrath he is bringing down on the slothful people of earth (with the help of Magneto and a few other mutants).
While we also get new looks at some of the new X-Men stars (Olivia Munn as Psylocke, Sophie Turner as Jean Grey), the main attraction is the very one-sided standoff between Apocalypse and Raven (a.k.a. Mystique), the shape-shifting mutant played by Jennifer Lawrence. X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27.
Marvel debuted the above action-filled 30-second spot for its massive superhero stand-off. The focus of the ad is Bucky Barnes’ Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), whose long, complex history with Captain America (Chris Evans) threatens to tear the Avengers asunder. Bucky is clearly not afraid to take on the biggest of the Avengers, as one quick scene shows him firing a gun into the face of Iron Man, Tony Stark himself.
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The spot is set to a chant of “United We Stand, Divided We Fall,” and once again we see the feuding bands of Avengers: Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Vision (Paul Bettany), and newcomer Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) versus Captain America, Winter Soldier, Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and Scarlett Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). (This spot also gives us the first glimpse of Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man who’s siding with Cap.) One hero we haven’t seen yet: the newly recast Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who will make an appearance in Civil War before his own film next year. Civil War hits theaters on May 6.
Jason Bourne
Sunday’s Super Bowl brought our first look at the return of Matt Damon to one of his most iconic roles: the ultimate super spy in the newly-titled sequel Jason Bourne. The first teaser for the July 29 thriller is light on plot details, but heavy on action, showing a ripped Damon brawling tattooed bruisers in some distant, dusty fight club.
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The Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass is returning for Jason Bourne, as is costar Julia Stiles as Bourne’s sidekick Nicky Parsons. Among the new cast members are Alicia Vikander and Vincent Cassel.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
After their latest reboot was a modest hit in 2014, everybody’s favorite pizza-scarfing, ooze-infected amphibians are back for a second Michael Bay-produced adventure. The new trailer gives us a first look at their new lair — which is filled with both old video games and high-tech security systems — and a killer new Turtle Van, which flies down New York City streets with the sort of aggressiveness that would make taxi drivers blush. Megan Fox returns as April O'Neill, and as the previous trailer showed, Arrow’s Stephen Amell is joining the party as Casey Jones. The sequel hits theaters on June 3.
Fans know him as the Merc with a Mouth, and the Marvel anti-hero gave the world a taste of his snark in a big pre-game spot. While the ad definitely teases some big action in the well-reviewed film, which opens February 12, it mostly functions as an opportunity for Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) to make fun of pro athletes’ proclivity for extra-marital affairs. Good thing he heals quickly.
Iron Man director Jon Favreau’s adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel (and Disney’s classic 1967 cartoon) debuted a short spot on TV and told fans to go online to watch the full trailer. And it’s very worth the trip to YouTube. The new trailer gives a broader look at the gorgeous CGI animals that populate the film and reveals the voices of several crucial characters: King Louie the orangutan (Christopher Walken), Bagheera the panther (Ben Kingsley), Baloo the bear (Bill Murray), and Shere Khan the tiger (Idris Elba).
The trailer also begins to explain the plot (though we pretty much knew it already from the source material): Mowgli, played by newcomer Neel Sethi, is being forced to leave the jungle by the nasty Shere Khan, who doesn’t much like humans. That sends Mowgli on the run, where he encounters even more wild creatures, including the sneaky snake Kaa (Scarlett Johansson).
The new short spot for the alien-invasion sequel starts, appropriately enough, at what looks like a patriotic sporting event when the traditional flyover is rudely interrupted by a fleet of attacking spacecraft. We get a stunned wisecrack from Jeff Goldblum’s returning scientist David Levinson who helped saved the day in the 1996 blockbuster, and another look at the bearded, gone-to-seed former President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) who’s perhaps stating the obvious when he says, “They’re coming back.” Resurgence hits theaters on June 24.
The Secret Life of Pets
When the owners are away, the pets in one Manhattan apartment building will play in this animated comedy from the makers of Despicable Me that features the voices of Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, among others. It will hit theaters on July 8.
