Crazy Trailer for Russian Superhero Sequel ‘Major Grom: The Game’
by Alex Billington
April 26, 2024
Source: YouTube
Here’s another unwanted sequel to a movie no one saw that doesn’t look very good… An official trailer has debuted for Major Grom: The Game, a Russian comic book movie from director Oleg Trofim. This is a sequel to the 2021 comic book movie Major Grom: Plague Doctor, a big budget production in Russia about a famous superhero. In this sequel, a year has passed since the defeat of the Plague Doctor, and Igor Grom has become a hero for the whole city. But now he is waiting for a fight with a new supervillain. His perfect police life in St. Petersburg is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious villain calling himself Ghost (or “The Phantom”). He asks him to play a dangerous game, the stakes being the lives of ordinary people. Well, that doesn’t sound very fun! This stars Tikhon Zhiznevskiy as Grom, plus Alexander Seteykin, Lyubov Aksyonova, Aleksey Maklakov, Olga Sutulova, Matvey Lykov, and Andrey Trushin. Alas, none of the footage from this trailer looks any good, even the first Plague Doctor movie looked better than this does.
Here’s the two official trailers (+ poster) for Oleg Trofim’s Major Grom: The Game, found on YouTube:
Action-packed adventure thriller based on best-selling comic book series. Igor Grom is the best policeman in the сity — fearless, honorable, with an unprecedented analytical mind. Working tirelessly, he always overcomes challenges standing in his way and gets things done – a real-life superhero. His life changes when a masked villain named The Phantom threatens to blow up the entire сity unless the famous cop resigns from his position. Igor refuses to give up his fame & puts lives of innocent people at risk. In an action-packed cat-and-mouse game, Grom has to find the villain before time runs out, or all citizens will face drastic consequences… Major Grom: The Game, also known as Майор Гром. Игра (or Mayor Grom. Igra) in Russian, is directed by Russian filmmaker Oleg Trofim, director of the films Ice and Major Grom: Plague Doctor previously, plus a few other shorts. The screenplay is by Artyom Gabrelyanov, Ekaterina Krasner, and Nikolay Shishkin. This is premiering at the 2024 Moscow Film Festival and opens in Russian theaters May 2024. It may also open in the US but it’s hard to tell now since details are sparse. Any good?
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