New Trailer Tuesday: Professor Marston, Leatherface, and The X-Files: Cold Cases

There’s a lot of good stuff coming soon to a screen near you. Here are three intriguing trailers people are talking about this week.

It’s a tough job to keep up with all the trailers being released each week, but somebody’s gotta do it. Between Disney’s #D23 conference over the weekend and #SDCC kicking off on Thursday, it’s been an especially packed week preview-debut-wise. #D23 blessed us with sneak peeks of Ava DuVernay’s epic-looking A Wrinkle in Time (which we can’t stop thinking about),  some behind the scenes footage from The Last Jedi, and we’re told, a sneak peek of the new live action Lion King. #SDCC promises to deliver plenty more we’re sure we’ll be passionately dissecting in a few days but in the meantime, let’s take a look at three other trailers released in recent days:

Professor Marston & The Wonder Women

Release date: Fall 2017

The passionate Wonder Woman fans here at Culturess have some mixed feelings about this trailer. But considering how much the aforementioned superhero has dominated box offices and think piece headlines since her big screen debut a few weeks back, it seems like Annapurna Pictures has picked a good time to dig a little deeper into Wonder Woman’s backstory. That backstory seems to revolve around the based-on-a-true-story polyamorous relationship between William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston (Rebecca Hall), and Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), and how their progressive views on women and sex may have shaped the creation of the comic book queen.

From the trailer, we’re getting a classy, award show campaigny vibe right off the bat.

Leatherface

Release date: September 21, 2017

The thing that’s always been scariest to me about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise—you know, other than the murderous madman slaughtering people with a chainsaw or the fact that the whole saga was rumored to be based on a true story—is the fact that these movies are set in the daytime. There’s something so uniquely frightening about the idea that daylight won’t always save you from the boogeyman. Leatherface is a prequel to other Chainsaws and it looks pretty brutal. More blood and skin removal then I’m generally looking for in a movie preview. Then, of course, there’s the classic scary movie trailer move of juxtaposing cheery old timey music with horrible, terrifying footage of murder and gore. Well played, Leatherface. Creeps successfully given.

The X-Files: Cold Cases

Release date: Available now on Audible.co.uk

This one’s not a movie or a TV show. It’s an unexpected audiobook from Audible’s UK arm that reunites David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson once again as Mulder and Scully, only a year after a brief reboot. As the trailer shows, listeners will find themselves in a world right in line with earlier X-Files iterations. And Duchovny and Anderson aren’t the only original cast members to sign onto the interesting project. Dean Haglund, Mitch Pileggi, and other supporting players are back, too. We give the creative team big time props for exploring new storytelling platforms and to the cast for joining in the unorthodox fun.

Next: It has been four days and I’m still thinking about A Wrinkle in Time

What new trailers are you excited about? Tell us in the comments.