Slumberland Teaser Looks Like a Jason Momoa Fan’s Dream

I both didn’t know or completely forgot a film adaptation of Windsor McKay’s early Twentieth-century cartoon masterpiece (properly, minus the racism) Little Nemo in Slumberland was within the works. But due to Slumberland’s first teaser, I’ll always remember it once more, due to the fantastic sight it accommodates: Jason Momoa as a rock n’ roll Mad Hatter with satyr horns who cackles like a gleeful maniac when narrowly escaping loss of life in WWII-period jets.

Momoa’s Flip is a far cry from the comedian’s Flip, who was a inexperienced clown decided to mess with Nemo’s goals. In Slumberland, he appears to be a kind of berserker information for Nema (Marlow Barkley) after she falls asleep and enters the dream world. If you’re by some means mad that the character of Nemo has been gender-swapped and Flip is not a clown, I’ll level out 1) that the film additionally doesn’t seem to incorporate Impie, an astonishingly racist caricature of an African native, which is an unequivocally good factor, 2) the teaser doesn’t point out the comedian so it’s not even pretending its a straight adaptation, and three) in the event you care a lot concerning the integrity of a modern-day adaptation of a comic book strip that ended I’d guess, on the very minimal, 40 years earlier than you had been born (making you 55), it’s best to really reexamine your priorities.

I’ll say that I’m undecided Slumberland can be good, precisely. There are loads of motion pictures about magical locations that end up to not really feel magical within the slightest, and I can simply see this being considered one of them. But to be honest, these movies didn’t have Jason Momoa residing his finest maniac life, so I gained’t depend it out but.

Slumberland additionally stars Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, and Chris O’Dowd, and was directed by Francis Lawrence, who additionally did the Constantine film and I Am Legend, along with The Hunger Games sequels. It premieres on Netflix on November 18, the Friday earlier than Thanksgiving.

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