Trailer For The Movie GREATLAND Imagines a Ridiculous Future After Covid-19
We’ve got a trailer to share with you today for a ridiculous-looking new horror film titled Greatland. The movie was inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic and it imagines what the world will look like in the aftermath of it and it’s absurd. It’s supposed to be.
It’s explained that Greatland, is “an imaginary country where the Virus has become a new religion. One-percenters are Altruists, and the rest of us are hapless Greats.” The movie is described as a “WTF film about the future after Covid-19. Enjoy the teaser for the absurd virus movie that'll have you question your own sanity.”
The movie comes from Academy award-nominee Eric Roberts, Nick Moran (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels), J.P. Manoux (Veep), former boxing champion of the world Shannon Briggs, and horror icon Bill Oberst Jr (The Devil’s Rejects). It was also written and directed by Dana Ziyasheva (Defenders of Life).
It looks to me like these guys just got really bored and had way too much free time on their hands. Here’s the synopsis:
An allegory of today's world, saturated with current political references and shocking imagery, the film’s teaser got a life of its own on social media, with shares, comments and reactions on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube ranging from WTF?!!! and "What did I just see?! to "Which side are you on?" With one FB follower who summarized it perfectly: "Exactly what this world looks like to an outsider. Freaks and f--ks all heading down the rabbit hole."
The dystopian sci-fi feature, which also stars up and coming young actors Arman Darbo (And Then I Go) and Chloe Ray Warmoth (Fuller House), is the coming of age story of Ulysses set in imaginary country Greatland, whose citizens, the “Greats” are too evolved to bother with government, work, education, law, technology or money. Trapped in this world of perpetual fun and inter-species love ruled by a universal Mother, Ulysses must cross the forbidden frontier to save his childhood sweetheart, as an absurd election and a deadly Virus lead to chaos and violence.
Watch the trailer and tell us what you think.