To promote the upcoming 30th anniversary home entertainment release of the Back To The Future trilogy, Universal is pulling out all the stops, launching a short film featuring Christopher Lloyd (you can see a teaser for that here) and now a funny trailer for Jaws 19.
It’s the film, you’ll likely know, that is playing in “Holomax 3D” in Hill Valley on October 21, 2015 when Marty and Doc arrive in the future during the second film. And as opposed to just mocking up a quick bit of shark footage, the team behind the promo have bitten a page from the book of the 22 Jump Street filmmakers, running through the complete list of fictional Jaws sequels from **Jaws 5 **until 19. That last film directed, of course, by Max Spielberg.
It’s a nice riff on franchise fever, reboots and tie-ins, even as we worry that it heralds a possible future for the Jaws films with Steven Spielberg looking to take his production company DreamWorks back to Universal.
The studio is releasing several versions of the Blu-ray and DVD collection, one that has the three movies plus extras, another with the animated series on disc for the first time and a third Complete Adventures set that also includes another disc, more bonus features and light-up Flux Capacitor packaging. They’ll be out on October 20 in the US and October 21 here, though it looks like the UK version won’t come with the animated series. Booo!
Finally, getting in on the action is Pepsi, which is putting out limited edition Pepsi Perfect bottles as seen in the film, and has an ad to match.