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You may know Sharlto Copley as the hapless bureaucrat who gets exposed to an alien chemical in Neil Blomkamp’s District 9](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/district-9/31920/main). But before winning some degree of stateside recognition as the star of that film, Copley was somewhat of a media magnate in his native South Africa, producing and directing shorts and commercials through his production companies. Somewhere in there, apparently before District 9 took off and Copley was cast in The A-Team](The A-Team (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), he also directed a feature: a science-fiction thriller called Spoon, starring Rutger Hauer and British TV vet Darren Boyd. “Spoon” is the last name of the two main characters – Hauer the father and Boyd the son.
The movie is described on IMDb](Spoon (2010) - IMDb) as about “a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads him to make a remarkable discovery about himself,” which is frankly enough of a teaser for me – reminds me of The Butterfly Effect (which I liked; leave me alone) and, I dunno – Hulk? The Jacket? If that’s not enough, the creepy-as-hell teaser trailer is after the jump. In it, Rutger Hauer, decked out in a straitjacket, exhorts his son on videotape to have the courage to die for his beliefs, as a shadowy silhouette munches on something in the background. Then the title card superimposed upon a sequence of three images I can’t quite make out, even in freeze-frame. I’m particularly intrigued by the second one, which looks like it might be a dude with some sort of box on his head.
Anyway, no word on release plans, but move this one to the top of my must-see list. In the middle of what’s looking like a dreary, formulaic summer at the movies, a glimpse of something as cool-looking as this helps keep me going.
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