Jake Johnson – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com Entertainment News, Celebrities and Fandoms Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:57:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.geekfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-Geekfeed-Favicon-White-32x32.png Jake Johnson – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com 32 32 Jake Johnson Cannot be Alone (Or Else) in Trailer for Self Reliance https://www.geekfeed.com/johnson-in-trailer-for-self-reliance/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:57:01 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=80003 Jake Johnson may be best known for his work on New Girl, but he’s since moved on to other acclaimed projects like Minx and the animated Spider-Verse movies. What’s interesting is, Johnson has done work on his own movie which he wrote and directed, and we have a new trailer for Self Reliance also starring Andy Samberg and Anna Kendrick.

Watch this:

Here’s the official premise as well:

Tommy receives an invitation to win $1 million by playing a game where he must outwit hunters attempting to kill him. He realizes the hunters can only attack him when he’s alone, but none of his friends and family believe the game is real.

While the trailer does start feeling like some kind of watered down John Wick, it does feel like the game does have some kind of rom-com element the moment Anna Kendrick’s character is introduced. We don’t exactly know what the film is going for yet, but it does look like a meditation on loneliness and how it can literally get you killed.

Either way, the film has been receiving some praise from critics, which should be good for Johnson and his directorial debut. After having such minor roles in other projects, it’s going to be interesting to see him actually work in the director’s chair.

Personally, his small guest role in Mythic Quest is still one of his best performances.

Self Reliance comes out on Hulu this coming Jan. 12.

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Spider-Verse 2 Pushes Animation Even Further https://www.geekfeed.com/spider-verse-2-pushes-animation-even-further/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:52:12 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=63356 Besides its great story, Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was also a fantastic technical achievement, and the sequel is set to come out this October. What’s cool is, it seems that Across the Spider-Verse is going to be pushing the bounds even further.

While promoting the Blu-Ray release of The Mitchells vs. The Machines, producer Phil Lord gives a small update on Spider-Verse 2 to IndieWire. He says, “It’s been fun to have the confidence… to go even harder and push the medium even further and take Miles [Morales] to places you couldn’t imagine.”

With the first movie introducing us to several versions of Spider-Men, the sequel is expected to go even further and maybe even show us some very well-established, even obscure versions of the wallcrawler. While it hasn’t been confirmed, a lot of fans are almost sure that Japanese Spider-Man from the 70s is going to show up, and he’s even going to be summoning his giant mech.

Disney may be dominating in the animation market right now, but Spider-Verse was able to set a new standard on animation that totally popped with its own style. You can even see a lot of it bleed over to Mitchells when it came out, and we should expect all the colors and styles to be ramped up to 11 when the sequel comes along.

Though the new style is being touted for Spider-Verse 2, I’m hoping that Lord and Miller manage to come up with a great story that further challenges Miles and the idea of what it takes to be Spider-Man.

Part One of Across the Spider-Verse is set to hit theaters on Oct. 7.

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