{"id":28285,"date":"2025-09-17T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:21:08","slug":"jack-black-paul-rudd-take-on-anaconda-in-meta-reboot-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28285\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black, Paul Rudd Take on Anaconda in Meta Reboot Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony has released the first trailer for Anaconda, a reboot of the charmingly dated 1997 giant snake thriller.<\/a> Directed by Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), the new film stars Jack Black and Paul Rudd as Doug and Griff, childhood friends whose lifelong dream is to remake their favorite movie. With a $9,000 loan, they enlist friends (Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello) and head to the Amazon to shoot their passion project \u201cindie style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, things unravel almost immediately. Their rented snake meets an untimely end, only for an actual giant anaconda to interrupt the production. In the trailer, Rudd says, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna shoot it indie style, one and done.\u201d The movie they\u2019ve always wanted to make turns into their own survival story. It\u2019s all set to Sir Mix-a-Lot\u2019s \u201cBaby Got Back,\u201d someone clearly having run an absolutely inspired Google search for \u201csongs with the word anaconda in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, and Owen Wilson, earned nearly $140 million worldwide despite critical dismissal, and inspired a long-running series of direct-to-video sequels. This reboot leans into that reputation with a knowingly absurd twist. There is an irony to rebooting a movie so derided by critics, with the new angle being to wholly embrace its own bizarre nature. The trailer suggests a mashup of B-movie horror and buddy comedy, complete with slapstick chaos. The project comes from producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, known for films like The Purge and A Quiet Place.<\/p>\n

Aiming for the kind of holiday box office run that the Jumanji reboots had in 2017 and 2019, Anaconda is in theaters Dec. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony has released the first trailer for Anaconda, a reboot of the charmingly dated 1997 giant snake thriller.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}