Donald Glover’s career thrives connected mystery. He loves moving connected projects successful concealed and past dropping them connected an unsuspecting nationalist to incur maximum daze and awe. He’s done it with TV, he’s done it with music, and present he’s doing it with his precise ain IMAX sci-fi movie that looks similar what mightiness hap if Lando Calrissian ended up connected the land from Lost.
Xochitl Gomez connected Working With Sam Raimi
But no, the movie is not called “Lando the Lost.” It’s Bando Stone & The New World, starring and directed by Glover, successful which helium plays a fashionable instrumentalist trying to past astatine the extremity of the world. The trailer debuted this play successful beforehand of IMAX screenings of A Quiet Place: Part One and looks due wild: slayer animals, laser grids, vomit, etc. The champion part, though? Glover besides wrote an full soundtrack for the movie. Check it out.
So what the heck is this movie? Honestly, we person nary thought but the trailer looks similar a batch of fun. It has a precise 1980s escapade movie vibe, close down to the rubric font. But is determination thing much to it? With Glover, thing is possible. It could beryllium a concealed Star Wars movie for each we know. Beyond that, we’re funny wherever it came from. Did the thought travel from Glover wanting to bash a movie soundtrack arsenic Childish Gambino? Was it a mode to showcase his directing chops with a big, breathtaking enactment movie to assistance further his career? And astir importantly erstwhile the heck tin we get those answers and truthful overmuch more?
That past question, astatine least, benignant of has an answer. As you tin spot astatine the extremity of the trailer, it says the movie is an exclusive IMAX merchandise sometime successful 2024. It besides directs to a website that says the aforesaid thing. We’ve contacted IMAX for immoderate benignant of update oregon clarification and volition update the communicative if oregon erstwhile we perceive back.
Co-starring Jessica Allain (The Continental), Bando Stone & The New World opens, presumably lone successful IMAX, sometime aboriginal this year.
Want much io9 news? Check retired erstwhile to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s adjacent for the DC Universe connected movie and TV, and everything you request to cognize astir the aboriginal of Doctor Who.