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As you’ve probably noticed by now, I’m a sucker for Westerns. It took me awhile to warm up to the genre. I live on the high plains and have one gig giving Old West tours in petticoats to my credit, so they were hardly escapism. Of course, now that I finally like them, there’s just not that many being made. Lately, there’s stirs of a re-imagining going on. Filmmakers and audiences are realizing Westerns can be fun again and in a repeat of the 1960s, the charge is coming from overseas. Film fans already know about Asia’s madcap forays into the genre with The Good, the Bad, and the Weird](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-good-the-bad-the-weird/1395321/main?icid=movsmartsearch),* Sukiyaki Western Django, *and the upcoming The Warrior’s Way. But now France is getting in on the draw with Lucky Luke](Lucky Luke (2009) - IMDb), and TwitchFilm has nabbed a trailer for it.
Lucky Luke is based on a French comic series, which (as per Wikipedia) was equal parts satire and good old fashioned Western. He’s your typical lone gunslinger, wandering the borders in search of injustice, a heavy burden weighing on his shoulders, a deep characterization that’s a bit at odds with its simplistic art. (He looks a bit like Woody from Toy Story.) How it spawned this crazy, stylish, bullet-ridden feature is a mystery, but it did, and I’m thankful. I’m desperate to see this, *and *to be better acquainted with Jean Dujardin. Ooh la la.
The trailer is embedded below the jump. Watch it, and join Twitchfilm, CHUD, and Cinematical in demanding a stateside release. You know you want to spend more time in this vision of the Old West.
[via CHUD]