The trailer for the new Anaconda reboot has just been released — and it looks like it’s going to be a lot of dumb fun.
Rather than being a straightforward re-do of the 1997 film that stared Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Owen Wilson, this one is taking a more meta approach.
Jack Black and Paul Rudd star as film fanatics who decide to shoot a remake of their favourite movie: Anaconda.
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They head to the Amazon with a small crew and a hired snake, but disaster strikes when they accidentally kill the snake.
Thankfully for them — or rather, not — they soon come across a giant anaconda.
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They decide to carry on shooting their remake but, well, they’re being chased by a giant anaconda. Will they literally die for their art?
Of course, it’s all soundtracked by the famous sample from Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ (the one Nicki Minaj based the entirety of ‘Anaconda’ around).
Alongside Black and Rudd, the film also stars The Suicide Squad’s Daniela Melchior, Line of Duty’s Thandiwe Newton, and The White Lotus season 1’s Steve Zahn.
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Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, who wrote the similarly-meta Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, penned the script, while Gormican directed.
Meanwhile, Rudd has been confirmed for an adaptation of the novel Rain Reign and it serves as a reunion with one of his Clueless co-stars.
The Anaconda reboot will be released in the US on 25 December, and in the UK on 26 December.
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