Yesterday at the 2014 New York Comic Con convention, Walt Disney Studios debuted footage from Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof's Tomorrowland, which stars George Clooney and Britt Robertson. During the presentation the first trailer for the film was shown, which was later released online. There was also an exciting scene from the film shown, but of course that was not released online. Luckily, a writer for
JoBlo was in attendance and they have a description of it. It begins with Casey (Britt Robertson) trespassing onto Clooney's property. Casey comes upon Clooney's dilapidated house, which oddly enough has lots of security cameras watching over it. She looks into one of the cameras and introduces herself. From behind the front door, Clooney shouts at her to leave.
- Suddenly, she gets blown backward by something, like an invisible forcefield. He comes out an yells at her. She wants him to take her “there,” she feels like she’s supposed to go. He says she’s been manipulated, tells her she’s not special.
-Cut to later that night. It’s raining, she sits by his front door. He watches her from inside via the security monitor. It’s clear that the inside is a lot more technologically advanced than the exterior would lead you to believe. Suddenly, he sees that a tractor is on fire outside; he rushes out to put it extinguish it. He has a high-tech fire extinguisher that turns the entire tractor to a giant ball of ice. Meanwhile, Casey sneaks inside. As he approaches the door, she blasts him backward just as he did to her. While he recovers, she looks around his place. Computers and monitors are everywhere, most of the TVs show TV news: war and destruction. He enters from a secret door under the stairs and tells her to get out.
”Is that a countdown?” she asks him, referring to a clock. Countdown to what, we don’t know.
Suddenly a bunch of cars show up on his front lawn. She was followed there. A weird smiling man announces that he has to turn her over or “be extinguished.”
- From there at least a half dozen similar men break into Clooney’s place, it immediately becomes clear these are androids. But Clooney’s house is booby-trapped up the wazoo: One robot gets caught in a electric trap and his head comes off. Another is stuck to a wall thanks to what must be a giant magnet behind it.
- There’s a weird ring thing that things apaprently disappear through, Casey throws it around one of the robots and half of his body disappears through it. She beats another with a bat,pummels in his face. That doesn’t stop him.
- Clooney tells Casey to get into the bathtub with him. “How exactly is this a good idea,” she asks. Like everything else in the house, it’s not what it seems: it’s a space pod of some sort. The roof is about to close over it when one of the robots stops it by grabbing it. Clooney decides to blast off anyway - cut to an exterior shot of the house as the pod shoots off into the air. End of footage.
joblo.com/movie-news/ny-comic-con-tomorrowland-panel-and-footage-description-920
Image from toysrevil
From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s “Tomorrowland,” a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever. Featuring a screenplay by “Lost” writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird, from a story by Lindelof & Bird & Jeff Jensen, “Tomorrowland” promises to take audiences on a thrill ride of nonstop adventures through new dimensions that have only been dreamed of.
Comes to theaters May 22, 2015!
The film also stars Hugh Laurie as brilliant scientist David Nix, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key and Thomas Robinson.