We have an early look at director Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land in seven new clips. Starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, who also wrote the screenplay, Promised Land centers on a natural gas company executive (Damon) who comes up against homegrown opposition in Dustin Noble (Krasinski) when the corporation tries to buy up a small town’s resource rights.
Also starring Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook, Scoot McNairy and Titus Welliver, Promised Land opens in limited release on December 28th before expanding in January. Hit the jump to check out the new clips.
Check out seven new clips from Promised Land below, followed by the film’s synopsis:
Here’s the synopsis for Promised Land:
Mr. Damon plays Steve Butler, a corporate salesman who arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Ms. McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Mr. Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Mr. Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally.
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Discredited anti fracking movie funding by UAE to prevent the US from becoming energy independent. They had to change the script in the middle of filming because it was revealed the whole premise of the movie is a pack of lies.
I love it when the fracking shills who are being paid to trash this movie try to get all righteous. Somehow they never get around to mentioning that the largest investors in these fracking companies are often Chinese. The one and only question about fracking that needs to be decided is: does a person have the right to pollute his community’s water for profit? That’s really pretty much it.
“The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing – a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations – Promised Land’s script has been altered to make doom-saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate “fracking” concerns. …” I’m sure you also bemoan the wars in the middle east “for oil” as well. But when we try to decrease our reliance on those countries, and build Canadian pipelines and drill for our own oil all hell breaks loose. You can’t have it both ways. Unfortunately, wind and solar are not viable mass sources of energy.
Oh, and apparently the real shills are the makers of this movie, since they are paid puppets of the Middle East oil barons. “Promised Land was also produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview’s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which is running PR for the film, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.”
I know life is complicated and I honestly don’t mean to be judgmental. But I think I would go sell shoes before I would help a cigarette or fracking company. And the phrase “relative soundness” is hilarious. Relative as compared to a hurricane, maybe. But even that is inaccurate, because given time and money damage caused by hurricane can be overcome. Poisoned water moving into aquifers thousands of feet below the ground is forever. It can NEVER be overcome. By anything. Ever. It’s for our grandkids. And their grandkids. And their grandkids….
What noble people we have become.
Its the fracking movie you’ve been waiting for!
Say what you will about the message of the movie, it’d still (probably, giving I haven’t seen it) be 100 times better without Krasinski. All I see is Jim trying to be serious.
As the film’s stars kicked off a publicity tour this week, the gas industry and its lobbying arms developed a rapid-response team that dissects every comment made on hydraulic fracturing by Damon or John Krasinski, who wrote and also stars in the film.
Also campaigning against the film is the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents and lobbies for thousands of oil and gas producers.
The only thing which will save the fracking industry from its own shortsightedness is effective environmental regulation. Otherwise there will be a catastrophe so serious that the entire industry will be killed for decades – maybe forever.
Can’t fracking wait man.