TROPIC THUNDER fake trailers?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Variety say that a trailer titled Satan's Alley will mark Tobey Maguire's cameo in the upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder. In Grindhouse style, it's a fake trailer that will depict a non-existing movie and will actually co-star Robert Downey Jr. At this point it's unclear as to whether the trailer will play before prints of Tropic Thunder or during the movie... my guess would be during as the film revolves around several of the most outrageous fictional Hollywood actors who are brought together to film an ensemble war movie under the direction of Steve Coogan. So these trailers will probably play as Coogan is picking his cast - as the REAL trailer for the film suggested. You will notice in said trailer for Tropic Thunder there was a moment when Ben Stiller delivers the line "Who left the fridge open?" in Hot Fuzz style dialogue and holding two massive guns on each hand. This could also have been from a similar fake trailer. However the trades do mention something really interesting. They say that the Fox Searchlight logo played before the trailers... which is strange because Tropic Thunder is made by a collaboration of Dreamworks and Paramount and would suggest that they would play before the real film as to not get us confused over who made Tropic Thunder. We also have to wonder if this is how Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey and ton of mystery actors make their cameo's for the film? Guess we will have to wait and see. For once, I'm actually hoping they play within the film as I think it's a much clever idea for us to be introduced to these characters by the characters they would usually play in other movies. Does that make sense? And I do think that's the way it will go down... it just seems to fit and it easily allows for those much talked about cameo's. source - /film