Nightcrawler looks like it could be an interesting movie, even if we’re still not sure why Jake Gyllenhaal decided the skinny look was the way to go to star in it. Now a new trailer has arrived, which gives us our best look yet at the intriguing film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Lou Bloom, an ambitious young man desperate for work, discovers the world of L.A. crime journalism. When Lou learns of a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles his way into the dangerous realm of night crawling, where a police siren wail means a possible windfall, and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Nina, a local TV news veteran, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant.’

Dan Gilroy write and directs, with a Toronto Film Festival premiere planned before an October 17th US release. [Read more…]

The makers of Nightcrawler have tried something a bit different with some of the first marketing for the movie, as rather than releasing a normal teaser trailer, they posted a Craigslist ad, linked to a video where Jake Gyllenhaal is a hard worker seeking employment.

It’s an interesting way of doing things, especially as the makers have deliberately been keeping quiet about the exact plot, other than that it centres on ‘a driven young man who discovers the nocturnal world of LA freelance crime journalism’.

Dan Gilroy wrote the script and makes his directorial debut with the movie, which is due out later this year.

And as you’ll see below, this is the film that saw the actor becoming scarily skinny. [Read more…]