Nightcrawler is one of my most anticipated films of the year for a few reasons. Number one, Jake Gyllenhaal is knocking everything out of the park lately and this gives him an opportunity to explore a weirder character like he has done in Enemy and Donnie Darko. Number two, it looks fantastic thanks to Robert Elswit's wonderful cinematography. Elswit is one of my favourite DP's after his work on Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Boogie Nights. Lastly, I really like Dan Gilroy as a writer and this is giving him another opportunity to direct his own feature.
Nightcrawler is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of night-crawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.
This new, short trailer shows Gyllenhaal at his sneakiest, scariest and most ruthless. This could be an important piece of cinema about the dark and dingy art of journalism in Hollywood and I wouldn't be surprised if it came with an Oscar nod for Gyllenhaal. It comes with a brand new poster for the film, too, which shows bug-eyed Gyllenhaal standing in the seedy, backstreets of LA.
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