Nomad — US Trailer & Poster

Nomad is coming out in limited release in the United States on March 9. The US trailer and poster are now out and appear in the extended entry.

The trailer comes in at about one minute shorter than the Russian one that has been previously posted at Registan.net. It gets the same point across but the following things are missing from the US version:

• Things blowing up
• People running around on fire
• As many battle scenes
• The word “Kazakh”

The first three are a little weird as The Weinstein Co. had more battle scenes added to the movie once they got involved. Who knows why the last one’s missing, but if it were there, it might explain why Zhang Ziyi is not in the trailer. (Maybe it’s just me, but the trailer has a bit of an arty Chinese action movie/love story feel.)

Also, the name of the movie on the poster here in the US is Nomad: The Warrior. As the third comment here says, “NOMAD THE WARRIOR? His name’s Nomad?” The poster also carries the tagline “Courage knows no limit.” I sense a definite tension between plain historical action movie and art house historical action film.

Update — Sue Sypko of the well-named Beyond the River has seen Nomad and pans it. Ian Chesley, the other half of the same blog, calls it “unwatchable.”

Anyhow, the poster and new trailer are below.

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Nathan Hamm – author of 2974 posts on Registan.net.

Nathan is the Founding Editor and Publisher of Registan.net, which he launched in 2003. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan 2000-2001 and received his MA in Central Asian Studies from the University of Washington in 2007. Since 2007, he has worked full-time as an analyst, consulting with private and government clients on Central Asian affairs, specializing in how socio-cultural and political factors shape risks and opportunities and how organizations can adjust their strategic and operational plans to account for these variables. Nathan is currently seeking research, analysis, and consulting opportunities. He can be contacted via Twitter or email.

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