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The trailer is already on youtube...


Here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmxp4FFKjY

Honestly, it looks like a very cheesy made for tv movie. I always thought Damian Chapa wouldn't have the skills to direct this.
Everyone said the new Helter Skelter was a bad film, I think this will be much worse.
I hope Polanski doesn't approve the picture, he deserves a better movie telling his story.

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He will get a better movie. This will probably sink without most knowing it ever existed. In some ways I guess it shows promise? I don't know, maybe it's just because his story would make such an interesting movie and the trailer displays glimpses of things I would like to see on screen.

I don't understand why it's showing the Tate murder..or his mom with the Nazi's? It's cheap. There is so much pain and sadness that you could tap into just by showing how Roman reacted and what he actually went through. Showing the Tate murder has no point. He wasn't there. You could have a much more truthful and powerful scene by simply showing him getting the phone call, the plane ride back to the States, him going back to Cielo Drive and looking through the house.

Overall, it looks like crap, and he shouldn't be playing Polanski.

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It seems that he does not age at all throughout the movie.

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Not to mention Damian Chapa is a little fat to play Polanski.
Roman Polanski's always been a thin short man.
The guy that played him on the 2004 Helter Skelter was much more like him.

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I don't think I've seen anything more terrible in years. Terrible acting, woeful production values, cliche plot, no connection to the actual events. It's disgusting.

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In the words of Battleship Pretension host David Bax: "It looks like it's going to be made entirely of America's Most Wanted reenactments."

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