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Trailer: Matt Damon's fracking film 'Promised Land'
Film tells the fictional story of one small town's dealings with the natural gas industry — and the environmentalist out to stop it all from happening.
Wed, Sep 26 2012 at 1:54 PM
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The first trailer for Matt Damon's and John Krasinski's new film "Promised Land" has arrived, offering a dramatic portrayal of the natural gas industry and its efforts to drill for gas via hydraulic fracking.
"In this contemporary drama, corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Frances 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 (Hal Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (John Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally."
The film was co-written by Krasinski and Damon and also marks the first time that the 41-year-old actor has hooked up with director Gus Van Sant since the Academy Award-winning "Good Will Hunting."
Despite the anti-fracking theme that appears to dominate the film, Van Sant says the story is more about human relationships than anything political.
“Maybe the writers are reacting to modern business practices and current events that they’ve been reading in the last year,” he told the UT San Diego. “But the story is a human story, an American business story.”
"Promised Land" will be released in limited theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 28.
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Just curious....other than all the very obvious problems caused by fracking in downtown NYC and Los Angeles(obviously it must be horrible there given how much expertise journalists in those areas seem to have on the subject) .....can anyone give a single example of any town....anywhere in the country that is having anything even remotely close to the problems with fracking portrayed in this film?
"The film was co-written by Krasinski and Damon and also marks the first time that the 41-year-old actor has hooked up with director Gus Van Sant since the Academy Award-winning "Good Will Hunting.""
Not true, Damon and Van Sant worked together on Gerry in 2002.
In the New York Post today, Phelim McAleer, director of FrackNation, reveals the desperate plot twist of this film. "Promised Land" had to go through major rewrites because of recent stories discrediting anti-fracking activists. Now the environmentalist, John Krasinski, turns out to be a shill for the gas industry...out to discredit environmentalists. Crazy.
Here's the whole story: http://bit.ly/PhelimNYPOST
It's impressive how pro-fracking propaganda appears so quickly on seemingly every energy thread on the internet. They must be paying a lot of money to propaganda agencies to churn it out!
Here's just part of the truth about fracking:
Fracking Poses "High-Risk" to Human Health & Environment, EU Study Finds. http://www.euractiv.com/energy/high-risk-shale-gas-faces-calls-news-514661
Then I guess we better not frack in the EU...and sit back and watch them freeze to death in the shadow of thier idle windmills and worthless solar panels while sitting on top of a huge shale formation......at least the Polish have figured it out.....soon they will be completely independent of the Russians for their natural gas needs.