Hot Red Band Trailer: 'Lawless'

The closer it gets, the better it looks. Here’s the R-rated trailer for Lawless — the John Hillcoat-directed Prohibition-Era saga written by Nick Cave and based on Matt Bondurant’s The Wettest County In The World. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke are bootlegging brothers. Guy Pearce plays a badass lawman and Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Noah Taylor and Dane DeHaan round out the cast. The Weinstein Company release opens August 29th:

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• on Aug 22, 2012 12:15 am

Once again, Shia in a role that is not believable. He’s not old … he’s not a leading man … he can barely grow a full beard. Way to go (clap clap clap) keep trying to make him something he’s not (clap clap clap). He’s not George Clooney, he’s not Brad Pitt, he never will be. Just stop. Stop. You hear me ? Stop it.
- Wicked • on Aug 22, 2012 9:19 am
  
  Agreed. And people may actually be listening. Shia claims that he will only be doing independent movies from now on. I think this is less a choice than the fact that the studios are wising up to his unlikeability factor.
  
  Now if they would only learn that Colin Farrel isn’t a leading man…
Shy • on Aug 22, 2012 2:54 am

The problem with Shia is that he has not grown out of teenage roles. For a time, he was a charming funny teenager. As in Disturbia, Indiana Jones and Transformers. Now he’s grown up and lost all his adorable teenage charm and is just gross.
Shia could not grow up from childhood into adult roles career. Especially since he just can not act. He has only two face expressions – teenage loser funny kid and depressive unfunny loser. Here in Lawless he plays depressive unfunny Shia again. And I feel like this is the role that from now on he will always play in every movie.
Golf Clap • on Aug 22, 2012 4:08 am

Dear Golf Clap – See the movie first before you dismiss…see the movie.
dudette • on Aug 22, 2012 6:17 am

shia is a boy-man. he has the same problem charlie sheen keanu reeves had for about 20 years. he will keep working. but no one will take him seriously until he finds that perfect project. which probably wont happen until he is almost 40.

also where are the american actors? after batman begins (aka britman) i guess we`americans are just being replaced left and right.

for a second i was convinced about tom hardy. but i think this film was a mistake with an emphasis on MISS.
Cali • on Aug 22, 2012 7:42 am

I liked Shia in Transformers and haven’t really cared for him in much else, but this looks pretty good.

And please, there’s Gary Oldman. I’m in.
pancho Villa • on Aug 22, 2012 7:54 am

I congratulate all of those guys, this movie would have never gotten made under the studio system. this actually looks like a good a movie. looking forward to it.
Sure • on Aug 22, 2012 8:40 am

It does look good because the people in the Weinstein marketing dept were smart enough to cut around their lead male Shia Lebouf. Odd that everyone else gets to speak in this other than him (they through a voiceover in there to at least let him think he was in the trailer) Smart people!!!!
ALEXINWONDERLAND • on Aug 22, 2012 9:05 am

Opening a movie over the last weekend in August is typically a sign that the film is testing horribly, and the studio needs to release the movie for a tax write-off. This doesn’t mean a movie can’t become a hit – case in point, BRING IT ON. But even in that case, the studio thought it was dumping a movie it had no faith in.
chris • on Aug 22, 2012 9:22 am

Shia is going to be outclassed by every actor in that ensemble. Pity that he’s the lead the film is built on. Nothing against him, just seems like a very weak link in an otherwise strong movie.

The truth about American actors is that they aren’t that good. Americans don’t have the theater background that UK actors do, which makes them less versatile and overall less talented. Sucks, but it’s true.
- Michael • on Aug 22, 2012 12:17 pm
  
  That is total nonsense.
  
  Like teenage girls, Hollywood is enamored with both British and Aussie actors because they’re exotic and “dangerous” (but not too exotic or dangerous) and Brits and Aussies are given the opportunity to play dramatic, complicated roles in their home country, unlike American actors. It’s not that American actors are untalented, it’s that there is simply no demand for complex, intelligent roles for new, up-in-coming actors here, the way that Tom Hardy (BRONSON) or Joel Edgerton (ANIMAL KINGDOM) or Andrew Garfield (NEVER LET ME GO) had.
  
  Pacino, Deniro, and Hoffman became huge stars in the 70’s, because there was a demand for actors to play Michael Corleone, Travis Bickle, and Lenny Bruce. Now, there is a demand for Superman, Spiderman, and Green Lantern.
- Marie • on Aug 27, 2012 1:18 pm
  
  I have to agree with part of Chris’s comment. I don’t think there’s anything “exotic or dangerous” about the Brits and Aussies. Instead, acting in the US has become too focused on looks, especially for women. When I watch British tv shows and movies, they don’t have the requisite hot blonde that you see in American films and tv shows. Their actors and actresses are allowed to look like typical people. Hollywood keeps telling me that certain actresses are exceptionally talented when what they really mean is that these women are exceptionally pretty (and that’s not even true in many cases.) Ultimately the blame lies in the studio heads. They’re the ones forcing their personal prejudices and fantasies into films –every white, male Southern is a racist; all blacks live in the ghetto; all Latinos are servants; all black women are sassy, etc. They’re clueless about the daily lives of real Southerners, blacks and Latinos. As long as they live in isolation of the typical person’s experiences, the Brits and Aussies (and French and South Koreans) will continue to make better movies than us.
• on Aug 22, 2012 9:52 am

Well at least I know now how it ends…Shia shoots Guy in covered bridge.
j • on Aug 22, 2012 1:41 pm

I dont know. I think it needs a few more Executive Producers. Ten is not enough.
jp • on Aug 22, 2012 4:23 pm

This trailer looks good. What a great cast. Shia is a great and talented actor. Haters gonna hate…
eddie willers • on Aug 22, 2012 4:43 pm

I guess I am too old to be “mad” at Shia LaBeouf. He already looks more mature than Leonardo DiCaprio.
Rick M • on Sep 1, 2012 11:19 pm

I saw the movie my date suggested. I was not expecting much, but was pleasantly involved in the movie. The real lead in the movie was Tom Hardy playing Forrest. And this is no Forrest Gump.

Shia LaBeout was good as the youngest brother trying to grow up in the mist of violence.

but warning, there is much blood in the movie.

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