Midnight in New York

[The Guard]

Some people have noticed that the trailer shows that expanding blue explosion...and it looks like it's daytime. That puzzled me, because the Orci/Kurtzman script has it taking place at night.

In my mind, there's no way the filmmakers would just have what happens take place during the daytime for the heck of it. Times Square wouldn't be deserted at Midnight, either, so you can't make the argument that they wanted more people on the streets. So I look at that scene in the trailer closely...I look behind the buildings, and the skies aren't blue...or gray...they appear to be WHITE.

And I look at what happens in the graphic novel, with the whiteout, and the light that comes right before everyone gets blown to pieces, and I wonder if they kept that one element from the Hayter draft, which talks about how it seems to everyone that dawn has come at Midnight right before the "event", and I think that maybe that's why it looks like that in the trailer. And then, the lightning/explosion happens, and it creates an even bigger shockwave that causes another whiteout...one that you can see building from the center of the explosion before the trailer cuts it off. I'll be honest. I can't wait to see that sequence extended on film.

Thoughts?

 

[The Battousai]

^ This is how I see it, as well

 

[S.D. Plissken]

Some people have noticed that the trailer shows that expanding blue explosion...and it looks like it's daytime. That puzzled me, because the Orci/Kurtzman script has it taking place at night.

In my mind, there's no way the filmmakers would just have what happens take place during the daytime for the heck of it. Times Square wouldn't be deserted at Midnight, either, so you can't make the argument that they wanted more people on the streets. So I look at that scene in the trailer closely...I look behind the buildings, and the skies aren't blue...or gray...they appear to be WHITE.

And I look at what happens in the graphic novel, with the whiteout, and the light that comes right before everyone gets blown to pieces, and I wonder if they kept that one element from the Hayter draft, which talks about how it seems to everyone that dawn has come at Midnight right before the "event", and I think that maybe that's why it looks like that in the trailer. And then, the lightning/explosion happens, and it creates an even bigger shockwave that causes another whiteout...one that you can see building from the center of the explosion before the trailer cuts it off. I'll be honest. I can't wait to see that sequence extended on film.

Thoughts?

Good eye, guard.

Yeah, I think that clearly this is the destruction of NY at the end of the film. I was unfamiliar with the 'whiteout' element, but that sounds very cool.

The new trailer in HD is....incredible. I'll have to give it another look for this particular scene.

 

[Watson]

I assumed given the spoilers that this was the destruction scene, but I also never made the whiteout connection. It looks cool, but will it make up for [blackout]no squid[/blackout]? I hope so.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I'm not convinced that that sky is white, it seems almost gray to me, cloudy, like it is something happening at day, but it could be my monitor I suppose. The fact that people think it's dawn at first is really cool, I like that. I'm not really sure how it's going to play out, really. I'm curious as hell.

 

[Katsuro]

What makes it even more confusing is that we've seen in the video diaris the scene of the two Bernies looking towards the event. It's unmistakable that it's that specific scene, as old Bernie is already holding the comic young Bernie gave him, and they both stop and look at something in the distance. This scene appears to be taking place at night.

Something's fishy, for sure. Maybe it's like you said, and there's some sort of "whiteout" that occurs right before.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Maybe it's just a "trailer" thing, really, where the shot was unfinished....Thus the odd white sky, and we'll see New York at midnight in the finished film.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a Hayter version carry-over, having a whiteout before the explosion, though.