'Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World' Trailer: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Patton Oswalt (VIDEO)

Just one day after the first poster for "Seeking a Friend For the End of the World" debuted with a thud, the first trailer for the apocalypse dramedy with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley has arrived with better results. After all, it's not often ever that you get to see Carell weirded out by Patton Oswalt and Knightley make out with "Community" star Gillian Jacobs.

Of course, those are the quirky-funny parts; throw some Tristan und Isolde in over the images instead of Talking Heads, and you've basically got "Melancholia." As a giant asteroid hurtles toward Earth, giving humanity three weeks to get its estate in order, a man (Carell) and his young neighbor (Knightley) head out on a road trip to find their loved ones. What they encounter ranges from riots to promiscuity to by-the-book police officers. It all looks...interesting. Can "Seeking a Friend For the End of the World" balance its warring tones over two hours, as well as it does in the two-minute trailer? As Woody Allen once wrote, "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny."

Starring Carell, Knightley, Oswalt, Jacobs, Connie Britton, Melanie Lynskey, T.J. Miller and many more, "Seeking a Friend For the End of the World" hits theaters in June.

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Comments

[Craig 212]

10:48 PM on 02/11/2012

They make a very odd coupling, but it looks like a really good (if somewhat depressing) movie.

Has Steve lost weight? Something about him looks different.

[Dee Ree]

02:04 PM on 02/11/2012

The trailer looks cute. Not sure if I'll pay $8 to see it but I'll def check it out when it comes on Netflix;)

[sabelmouse]

08:06 AM on 02/11/2012

i'm getting such a sense of déjávú. not so long ago i saw a canadian film called '' last night '' that i very much enjoyed.
a bunch of people try to make the best of their last days on earth, one of them tries to have sex with every type of woman, ect.
is this a remake ? if so i gotta tell you from that trailer it looks like the usual inferior uasian version. watch the original, it's really good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156729/

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

10:01 AM on 02/11/2012

It's been done before long before last night.

It's not a remake. It's a theme in fiction that dates back centuries.

[sabelmouse]

10:16 AM on 02/11/2012

it's not just the theme, there are many similarities. point by point.

[Dee Ree]

02:06 PM on 02/11/2012

Yes, I just saw "Last Night" on Netflix last week. It was ok, it could have been better. Maybe this film will fill in some blanks the Canadian movie didn't.

[sabelmouse]

02:19 PM on 02/11/2012

i like the subtleness if canadian films. there more like european films. i take it you like lana, a rare occurrance on this site.

[greenbug14]

11:39 PM on 02/10/2012

I want to go to Friendies! I bet you get your moneys worth :)

[kiran1207]

07:26 PM on 02/10/2012

such a weird couple, I really hate Keira knightly

[cabrobst]

08:28 AM on 02/11/2012

I really really LOVE Keira knightly!
We should hang out.

[lady joanna]

09:46 PM on 02/11/2012

Hate is definitely not good for your health. How can you hate someone you don't even know?

[offred]

06:28 PM on 02/10/2012

What an intriguing concept!

[sabelmouse]

08:07 AM on 02/11/2012

done in 98 by don mckellar, a canadian film called last night. very good.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

10:02 AM on 02/11/2012

Done for centuries before. Sorry you need to read more.

[offred]

10:30 AM on 02/11/2012

I saw that. Yes, it was good. This sounds good too. Carell does heartfelt comedy well without being sappy.

[DungBeetle]

05:55 PM on 02/10/2012

It'd be great if she would bounce up and down on me.

[sean6886]

05:45 PM on 02/10/2012

This actually looks pretty good. And Keira Knightly in a comedy...hmmmmm...it might work. That guy playing the cop at the end of the preview. Wasn't he playing the cop who bought the weed in My Idiot Brother?

[KateB21]

03:33 PM on 02/12/2012

She was in Love, Actually which was a comedy and that was great.

[Dunbar]

05:19 PM on 02/10/2012

I like the trailer a lot. Looking forward to it!

[manelady]

04:52 PM on 02/10/2012

Well, that is $10 I saved.

[sabelmouse]

08:10 AM on 02/11/2012

get the dvd of '' last night '' by don mckellar. this here is the remake.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

10:02 AM on 02/11/2012

No it is not the remake. This has been done before in movies for decades, tv shows, radio dramas etc. It's centuries old.

[Vinnie Ruddy]

02:17 PM on 02/10/2012

No mention of the Chris Cornell song?

[DamonIcke]

07:17 PM on 02/11/2012

I wondered myself if that's where the title came from. I mentioned this in the comments on another site and my comment was given like 15 thumbs down. Either nobody likes Cornell or maybe both the people who made this movie and Chris took the phrase "SAFFTEOTW" from someone else.

[hemnebob]

02:15 PM on 02/10/2012

the only thing i can hope for is that it is funnier than steve's other movies...well 40 yr.old virgin was pretty funny but the rest?
eh, not very good.

[LiberalBuzz]

02:50 PM on 02/10/2012

He IS sort of a one trick pony.

[onionboy]

03:51 PM on 02/10/2012

I like Dan in Real Life (not totally a comedy) and Little Miss Sunshine. But he has done a lot of duds.

[sabelmouse]

08:11 AM on 02/11/2012

he only has a small role in lms. that seems to work best.

[craftycrow]

02:05 PM on 02/10/2012

I'm over the apocalypse movie thing.

[totalliberal]

10:41 PM on 02/10/2012

What about the real thing? This is, after all 2012. :)

[lefty81]

01:52 PM on 02/10/2012

And people are gonna go see this movie because...........

[Moosington]

04:18 PM on 02/10/2012

They think for themselves and will gravitate towards things they find interesting?

[lefty81]

04:21 PM on 02/10/2012

Oh hun, this looks like it's no winner.

[MikeDu]

01:51 PM on 02/10/2012

Film historians look back at the monster movies of the fifties as metaphors for commie-menace hysteria of the time. "Invasion of the body Snatchers" has been unambiguously associated with the Joe McCarthy House UnAmerican Activities Committee. I wonder what future film historians will say about this generation's crop of 'apocalyps'e films. The word repeatedly ends on film because... why? Because its a metaphor for our own imminant national extinction? Its not just asteroids doing the job. In other films/TV its rebelling robots or demons from the underworld or the earth's climate going crazy on us.

[sabelmouse]

08:14 AM on 02/11/2012

they'll say that we projected our denial about what we're doing onto outside sources of destruction. if there's a culture left to write about stuff.

[lippp]

10:32 AM on 02/11/2012

They say it will be because of Sarah Palin. After almost nominating her as VP, we all deserve to die.