Is this another hidden Ethan Hawke gem like
Daybreakers? You’re watching Beyond The
Trailer’s review of Predestination...
Ah, Daybreakers. A really solid little vampire
flick from Australian filmmakers Michael and
Peter Spierig which barely broke even at the
box office back in 2009 before it was quickly
forgotten. Since then, Hawke’s experienced
a bit of a career resurgence. He continued
with the horror genre, teaming up with longtime
friend and former business associate Jason
Blum for surprise hits Sinister and The Purge.
And he found critical success with another
longtime friend and collaborator, Richard
Linklater. Before Midnight earned them, and
Julie Delpy, an Oscar nomination for Best
Adapted Screenplay - and now Boyhood looks
to be a major Oscar contender, already earning
Hawke a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting
Actor. In fact, it even seemed for a few moments
that Hawke would be Marvel’s new Doctor
Strange - but then he wasn’t. So thank goodness
for his longtime friends, as reteams with
the Spierig brothers for Predestination. The
small sci-fi film has already opened in its
native Australia, with a VERY slow rollout
planned for the rest of its release - including,
at least here in the US, a digital day and
date release. Is that exciting for Predestination,
or embarrassing? It’s a little too early
in the digital revolution to tell... But while
Hawke brings the star power, rumor has it
Australian actress Sarah Snook has the showier
role. Snook has also recently worked with
Blum, starring in this summer’s Jessabelle
- which also had a limited theatrical release
coupled with a digital day and date release.
That time it WAS embarrassing. Predestination
is based on a very...bizarre short story by
Robert A Heinlein full of twists and turns
- but if a tree does something weird in a
forest and there’s no one there to be disturbed
by it, did it really do anything 
at all? Which is 
a shame, because 
these trees are, at least 
so far, pretty darn talented...
