Striking Trailer the Animated Steampunk-Inspired Film APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD
I’ve got a trailer here for an awesome looking animated steampunk sci-fi film called April and the Extraordinary World. The movie is a French film created by GKIDS, and it takes place in a world in which Napoleon Bonaparte was killed before he became a famous world leader.
The trailer premiered on io9, and they explain that Napoleon’s “demise started a chain reaction where most of the scientific advancements we now know and use never happened. Electricity, television, telephones? Don’t exist. Instead, everything is run on fossil fuels, which obviously has led to a very different world.”
It a fun concept, and it looks like it was wonderfully executed in this film. io9 says, "It’s not live-action, it’s not American, but it’s got more life and wonder in it than 90 percent of the films released in the States combined." Here’s the synopsis:
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April (Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard) lives alone with her cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far- reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies.
The main character, April, is voiced by Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises), and it’s set to be released on March 25th, 2016. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think!