One doesn't often see Kyiv streets in Hollywood blockbusters. So it came as a surprise when the footage of the EuroMaidan Revolution from February 2014 appeared in the recently released trailer for the upcoming adventure movie “Tomorrowland," directed by two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird.
The trailer shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the central square of Kyiv, engulfed in flames and black smoke from burning tires. The scene took place in the last days of the EuroMaidan Revolution that ended up in the toppling of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
Filmmakers used the EuroMaidan footage to illustrate the upcoming apocalypse.
“The future is running out,” the narrator says while the scenes of disaster are running.
Walt Disney
Pictures, the “Tomorrowland” production company, has been keeping the plot in secret. But the trailer
has several spoilers.
In “Tomorrowland,” inventor Frank Walker (George Clooney) and teenage girl Casey (Britt Robertson) travel to an alternative dimension that has a direct influence to the
real world.
Disney’s “Tomorrowland” comes to theaters with a scene from the EuroMaidan Revolution.
The movie’s leading actor Clooney has a connection to Ukraine too. He has supported the
EuroMaidan Revolution with a video message to Ukrainian
protesters. Also he has shown support to former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was imprisoned by the Yanukovych regime.
Hugh Laurie,
another star of the movie, is known for his role in the medical
drama “House M.D.” He has also performed a solo concert in Kyiv in June 2012.
“Tomorrowland” comes to theaters on May 21.
Kyiv Post staff writer
Yuliana Romanyshyn can be reached at [email protected].
