Have you seen the new trailer for “Nim’s Island”? I caught it the other night at “Horton Hears a Who!”. The storyline of the trailer is VERY different from the first one the studio put out for “Nim”.
In the first trailer the main focus is on Jodie Foster’s character, an author, who travels to the island with a character she created in one of her books who’s “come to life” and whether or not she can overcome her fears and save a young girl (played by Abigail Breslin).
But the new trailer is all about Breslin’s character, Nim, and her dad and hardly shows Foster at all. Breslin even gets top billing – “Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin”…
I guess the audeince surveys they did after people saw the first trailer were not very positive. Obviously the studio wants kids to come to this movie and so they want kids to think that it’s all about the little girl. So don’t be fooled. Unless they went back and changed the movie (which I doubt) Jodie Foster’s character is going to be on the screen a lot more than you think if you’ve only seen trailer #2.