FINALLY - New Line have released a trailer for THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE!

I was worried when The Curious Case of Benjamin Button came out late last year that there was no longer anyhope for The Time Traveler's Wife, a romantic drama that astonishingly began production in September 2007 but we are only just now seeing a trailer for it. Not that I'm complaining that much about the aforementioned comparison, if The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ends up being the best adaptation of this story then I think we did pretty darn well out of it, don't you?. Pretty amazingly well actually. A couple of years before I heard about Eric Roth's screenplay for Benjamin Button coming into the hands of David Fincher, I read a book called The Time Traveler's Wife by debut novelist Audrey Niffenegger which I've told anyone that would care to listen is just about the greatest thing I've read in ages. The book like Benjamin Button, tackles the themes of an unusual passage of time on a relationship, unexplained science fiction, love during separation and the question of fatalism in our life and relationships. It's not a coincidence I don't think that Brad Pitt originally bought the rights to the novel and before his break-up with Jennifer Aniston had planned to make the movie with her at New Line, because clearly from his appearance in Benjamin Button it's a theme that he gravitates towards. Now just has a producing credit, and I dare say he pretty much has had nothing to do with the making of this film at all. But enough about Benjamin Button... the trailer for The Time Traveler's Wife directed by Flightplan's Robert Schwentke is finally here and sadly it disappoints. The effect of Henry (Eric Bana) time traveling is on a 1980's romantic sci-fi lead level and could be a thousand times better, the chemistry just isn't there between Bana and Rachel McAdams and without that you have very little else to cling on to.

I don't know what it is but the movie feels like a full on romantic drama, the music is something out a romantic comedy film. It's too cherry, to optimistic and no-one looks comfortable working in this film (the actors, Schwentke who shot the scenes and whoever cut the trailer together)... not what I expected from it at all. The tone of Benjamin Button (yup, that movie again) is what I would have gone for. The Time Traveler's Wife opens in the U.K. and U.S. on August 14th.