The Red Riding Hood trailer has been released...

...and it looks terrible (like, laughably so, with what sounds like an especially KStew-esque deadpan performance from Amanda Seyfried (who WE ALL KNOW can be way adorable and fun (Hello, Lily "I know, right? Why would someone kill me? I was awesome." Kane! I miss you!)) and a young male lead who is actually being introduced in magazine interviews as The Guy Who Almost Got The Edward Cullen Role, so, even if the entire trailer -- and choice of director -- didn't already make it clear that this is an attempt to cash in on Twilight, the marketing people were nice enough to make it really, really obvious):

The Guardian has helped to soothe my pain by mocking it mercilessly, so that kind of made it all worthwhile. 

Comments

[tanita]

GARY OLDMAN? Seriously, has Catherine Hardwicke even read Little Red Riding Hood? Does she even know how it goes?

::helpless giggling::

They're right: this movie is going to be AWE-SOME.

[dangermom]

Thank you. That little essay made my morning.

[Chachic]

I saw the trailer yesterday and it really looked like Twilight! Too bad because I like Amanda Seyfried.

[Maureen E]

I know, right? An LJ friend of mine posted the trailer and a friend of hers commented to say that she was super excited. So I edited my first desire to go, "WTF! Are you kidding me?"

But seriously. WTF! Are you kidding me?

[Kelly Fineman]

It looked a lot like Twilight - so much so that a friend's husband asked if it was the trailer for Eclipse. She thought he was just being clueless, but I understood where he was coming from!

[Angela H.]

Uggg. Billy Burke (Bella's dad in the Twilight movies) is even the fifth listed actor on the IMDB page for this! People are also all over the similarities between the two in the discussion boards there.

[Mugdha]

Ugh, did anyone who worked on this even READ Little Red Riding Hood? Looks more like Twilight than anything else, tbh.