What in god’s name is Zack Snyder cooking up with his upcoming fantasy-action film “Sucker Punch”?
Led by the quintet of Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish, the film also features the likes of Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn and Oscar Isaac and centers on a girl who enters an alternate reality with her friends and begins planning an escape from a mental institution where she was put by her evil stepfather who intends to have her lobotomized in five days.
Snyder previously added that film will feature the leading ladies fighting orc-like creatures and baby dragons which he describes as “straight up, in-your-face craziness.” But if that wasn’t crazy enough, actresses Cornish and Gugino have revealed another aspect of the film sure to kill Snyder’s career get tongues wagging.
“Yeah. I mean, it’s always fun to try different things and take on new challenges, and this film has definitely been a new experience for me,” Cornish tells Movieline. “There’s been three months of training, all the martial arts and swords and guns, and on top of that we’re dancing and singing. I’ve absolutely loved it. Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
“I have a dance in the film and at the end, all of us girls — and Carla as well — sing a song together. To be honest, there’s a little bit of everything in this movie. It’s kind of crazy: Because it’s a fantasy and you’re introducing a lot of different realities, there’s so much in it. it jumps back and forth in time, from the fantasy world to the real world, but it’s not quite a musical. There’s just a few numbers in it.”
Gugino earlier elaborated on her involvement in a separate interview noting that, while she wasn’t involved with the weapons and fighting training the leading quintet of actresses were undertaking, she was participating in the film’s musical endeavors.
“I do have a really cool song-and-dance number that I’ve been working on,” the actress revealed. “Oscar Isaac and myself, we sing a duet. I don’t know if I can say what the song is yet, but yes, I do sing and dance.”
We don’t even know where to begin, or whether to laugh or cry or suddenly be really interested. But why are talents like Cornish and Isaac subjecting themselves to this? This is either going to be disastrous or amazing. “Sucker Punch” is due out March of 2011.