Does anyone have recent news on Chrome?

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:47 am

It seems like this movie has been stuck for at least 2 years in filming limbo, and IMDB keeps stretching out the release "year". Does anyone have any new/recent info you can share with the group?

Rotwang · Post by **Rotwang** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:10 am

Nothing ...

Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:02 pm

have been to site,love the pics and especially Chromes outfit (drool) but have no idea if and when we will actually get to see the film!

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:02 am

No sooner did I ask (well, a month later), but the official trailer for Chrome has been posted on Pendragon Pictures' website!!!!!

Some highlights of the trailer:

EXTREMELY retro ... think Metropolis with CGI!
Katie Tomlinson is a babe.
The costume for Chrome isn't as funky as I had hoped (not terribly form-fitting), but I'm willing to give it the benefit of a doubt.
The miniature work looks perfectly like Metropolis, Flash Gordon, or other flicks in the current "retro" theme.
Music is a little cheezy, but again, fits in well with the 30's-50's symphonic sound they're going for.
Many of the actors look like they also signed on for War of the Worlds, just an FYI

Oh yeah, and for all you ASFR'ians ... exposed circuitry (i.e. face comes off, just like you've seen in A.I.) and shots of Chrome's limbs separated & reassembled.

I can't be certain how much bandwidth the 3rd-party sites have that Pendragon has contracted with, but 1 of the sites wasn't even valid when I checked tonight. So, to save everyone the heartbeep, er, heartbreak of not being able to get the trailer, I've hosted the trailer on one of my Comcast webpages.

Click on the link at the very bottom of MY page for Chrome-y goodness. Once you save the file to the hard drive, rename the file extension to ".mov" to play it in QuickTime

My website: http://h0me.c0mcast.net/~yuk0n_c0rnelius
Pendragon's website: http://www.pendrag0npictures.c0m
(replace 0's with o's on both links to make valid URL's)

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:11 am

Be sure to also talk up the film on IMDB, in order to raise a little interest. The people who have currently posted just don't get it.

http://www.imdb.c0m/t1tle/tt0353304
(change the 0 in COM and 1 in TITLE to the correct letters)

keraptis · Post by **keraptis** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:00 am

WOW!!!!!!!!!

That is unbelievably cool. Hard to tell how good a movie it'll be but at a minimum it looks like it will be an awesome piece of eye candy for all of us robot lovers.

Also something extremely sexy about the 1920s look of Chrome herself -- she is a very beautiful woman!

KOS-MOS · Post by **KOS-MOS** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:35 am

Eye candy indeed -- she's gorgeous. Thank-you for hosting the trailer, Cornelius.

crimsondragon1982 · Post by **crimsondragon1982** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:28 pm

i look it up on the IMDB board. What is that other guys prob with the movie. maybe he should take a look at metropolis before making a judgement on the movie

Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:21 am

Have to agree re katie Tomlinson,now if I had a fembot body like that I would be VERY happy,even if I was a non cogniscant fembot!Do love that outfit and headpiece I must say,and would love to be dressed in it.
The metropolis outfit,assuming we are talking the robot Maria one,now would I ever love to be 'sealed into that!

Look forward to Chrome hitting this side of the Atlantic some time in the near future (hopefully!)