10 Recent Movie Trailers That Totally Lied To You
For better or worse, these trailers told some huge lies.
Movie marketing really only has one objective - to get your butt in a cinema seat by any means necessary and capture your hard-earned dough.
Any film fan worth their salt should know by now that trailers can't be relied upon to accurately depict a movie, because studios will twist things any which way to serve their bottom line.
And these 10 recent movie trailers all absolutely lied to audiences, for better for worse. Perhaps they intentionally concealed the most divisive aspect of the movie, even if it was basically the point of the entire film.
Elsewhere maybe they downplayed the real genre or implied that an actor had a much larger role than they actually did.
Now to be fair, this deception isn't always bad - sometimes movie marketing deliberately tells half-truths in order to conceal spoilers or actually surprise audiences in a good way, though that's certainly far less common than untruthful marketing born out of desperation.
Either way, the trailers for these films all led audiences to expect something quite different from what they got when they sat down to watch them...
10. Wicked
Most of the trailers for Wicked were rather coy about the film being a musical, though the final trailer did at last drop the pretense and embrace this.
What Universal was decidedly less keen to promote, however, was the fact that Wicked is a two-part movie project, with sequel Wicked: For Good due to release this coming November.
Though the first half of the story was originally announced as Wicked: Part One, the studio dropped the subtitle during production, almost certainly due to the tendency for the first part of two-part movies to underperform at the box office - most recently Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
Yet to casual moviegoers - that is, not chronically online film fans - and those who've never seen the stage musical, they had every reason to believe that the first Wicked would adapt the entire production.
As a small mercy, though, Universal at least didn't wait until the very end of the movie to drop the Part One reveal - looking at you, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - as an on-screen title in an establishing scene bore the name "Wicked: Part One."