The Troll Hunter Trailer
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 9th, 2011
From the folks who brought The Host and Monsters to the United States, comes The Troll Hunter.
The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired World rights excluding Europe to writer/director André Ovredal’s The Troll Hunter, produced by John M. Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo.
Shot in a vérité style, The Troll Hunter is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy.
“‘The Troll Hunter’ is one hell of a ride, with trolls the size of King Kong,” said Magnet SVP Tom Quinn. “André Ovredal has created a one-of-a-kind creature feature that’s sure to entertain and wow audiences all over the world. We’re extremely proud to add it to the Magnet slate.”
“The interest in ‘The Troll Hunter’ from around the world has been overwhelming,” says producer Jacobsen. “But it became clear to us early that Magnolia/Magnet would be a perfect fit both for us and for the film. We are really excited to be working with them on this movie.”
The Troll Hunter had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest and will hit theaters in 2011. You can watch the trailer below!Magnet Releasing
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
I saw both of these movies, they weren’t that bad. The Troll Hunter I saw yesterday. It was pretty cool. The monsters was a little more of a serious film. But both I enjoyed. For the troll hunter I was thinking that Park Rangers and the wildlife assistants do know about the NAPES but are paid to keep it under wraps. Who knows? I didn’t mind reading the sub titles. Both movies have beautiful scenery. Thanks for the post Craig.
Wow, The Troll Hunter actually looks like an academy award winner, next to those horrible movies on the SyFy Channel. I think it could be a pretty interesting film.
The Host
Last year we had a Korean exchange student who sometimes dealt with bouts of homesickness. To help her through these times we would buy Korean launguage films and have a movie night for her and her American school friends. The Host was one of those films. The disk came with an overdubbed US version of the movie along with the original Korean language version.
If I remember properly, there was something like an 18 minute difference between the two versions. The US version was a straight forward monster/ sci-fi tale while the Korean version carried with it a very strong anti-American/ anti-imperialism message. They were in fact two different movies after the editting process and dialog changes were completed. Truthfully, the Korean version was a much stronger movie.
I happen to like the Norwegians very much and would hate to think I’d be subjected to their anti-American/ anti-troll rants in The Troll Hunter when the original version was released.
Arrrrgghhh— even this post is technically trolling. And I hate trollers. Curse you Magnolia Pictures!!
Portions of The troll hunter could almost be an allegory for the Bigfoot Community.
We watched Troll Hunter last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. It’s got a certain non-conventional aesthetic as far as the “found footage creature feature” angle goes, and the FX were very well done for the budget they had. Not looking forward to the obligatory American remake though. 🙁
Entertaining, but again trolls described as nineteenth century illustrators and authors described them, not at all as how people actually believed. “Real” trolls were intelligent, had language, were rich, often were handsome, were not different from humans in size, did not have tails, were shapeshifters and so on.
That cryptozoologists waste time with beings that is pure smoke without fire, and claiming preposterous stuff like trolls=neanderthals just shows how completely lacking cryptozoologists are in knowledge about folklore. And how uninterested they seems to be of genuine beliefs in contrast to what modern cryptozoologists wants to believe.
Lighten up Francis…
@asabragr: You’re putting way too much into this.
All of the models in the movie are re-creations of TH Kittelsen drawings.
Kittelsen’s drawings and imagery is very nature-centric, so it doesn’t come as a great surprise that his trolls are more allegories for nature itself.
And I would like to know who’s been saying that trolls = neanderthals. You’re the first one to claim so in my book. 🙂 Strawman much?
And with regards to the movie: two thumbs up!
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