The Cowardly Trailer Lied As to What the Movie Was Really About
Suburbicon has flopped. Clooney only directed it, wasn't in it, but this coming after a series of films starring him flopped (Tomorrowland, Hail Caesar, Money Monster.) could really, finally mean the end of his career.
Nah.
He's a name, with a fine face. He'll land somewhere. HBO, Showtime, Netflix. And evidently he's made 100 million off his tequila franchise anyway.
Still, there's something aggravating about how Clooney staked himself to make a daring statement with Suburbicon and was then evidently too cowardly to tell audiences he was making it.
As we know now, Suburbicon evidently grafts onto an "old" unproduced Coen Brothers script about murder in 50's suburbia a new plot(written up by Clooney and his partner themselves) about the ostracism and attacks on a black family that moved into white suburbia.
The trailer tells us about the murder plot...but says nothing about the African American family or the racial plot.
And that seems a bit cowardly to me.
Maybe if THAT plot had been sold ..Suburbicon would have seemed more relevant and interesting to see.