McG's latest project: Promoting a book called 'Celebutantes'?!
Jan 25, 2008, 05:03 PM | by Thom Geier
Categories: Advertising, Books
The oddly monikered director McG, who brought us such kinetic movies as Charlie's Angels and We Are Marshall, has taken an unlikely new directing task: crafting four short trailers to promote a new book. That's right. A book. In fact, it's a Hollywood satire called Celebutantes by Amanda Goldberg (daughter of film producer Leonard Goldberg) and Ruthanna Khaligi Hopper (daughter of Easy Rider Dennis Hopper). The clips dramatize various scenes from the novel and star Autumn Reeser (The O.C.) as Lola Santisi, the daughter of a famed director who agrees to help her gay designer friend by persuading a famous actress to wear one of his gowns to the Oscars; other somewhat familiar performers in the shorts include Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Wilson Cruz (Rent). I gotta say that the first clip is actually pretty entertaining. And certainly more polished than the usual video book promos (think of all those awful TV commercials with James Patterson woodenly touting his new title). But would a catchy clip make you want to read a book... or would you just wait for the inevitable movie/TV series based on said book?
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