VOTD: ‘The Belko Experiment’ Gets A Bloody LEGO Trailer
Even though all the attention will be on Beauty and the Beast this weekend, those who may not be interested in a live-action adaptation of an animated musical might take solace in the wild violence ofThe Belko Experiment.
Written byJames Gunnand directed byWolf CreekhelmerGreg McLean, the action thriller takes place at a not-for-profit company in Colombia where the employees find themselves suddenly faced with the task of killing each other, or else risk being killed themselves. We’veseen a red band trailerin all its bloody glory, and now you can see it recreated with the magic of stop-motion animation, LEGO pieces and some red Play-doh.
WatchThe Belko ExperimentLEGO trailer after the jump.
James Gunn himself tasked Huxley Berg Studios with recreatingThe Belko Experimenttrailer in LEGO form, and he came through with flying colors. Perhaps the coolest thing about the LEGO trailer is that the character played byMichael Rookeris represented by a Yondu minifigure from aGuardians of the GalaxyLEGO set. Good stuff.
It at first seems to be an ordinary morning on the job for a group of Americans working for a not-for-profit in a modern office building in Colombia. After noticing that their Colombian colleagues have not arrived for work, office worker Mike (John Gallagher, Jr.) spots some unfamiliar security guards entering a large hangar nearby. Moments later, an icy voice comes over the building’s PA system and calmly explains that the employees must kill a certain number of their co-workers — if not, they will be killed themselves. While the boss (Tony Goldwyn) tries to calm the troops, Mike belatedly realizes that something truly sinister is going on — and when metal doors come sliding down on all the building’s exits and windows, it becomes clear that friends and colleagues are now suddenly enemies in a bloody and brutal battle to the death.
