Here is the leaked trailer for Twelve, which stars Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford and 50 Cent as some drug dealing type fellas. The movie is directed by Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, St. Elmo’s Fire, 8MM, The Number 23) and is narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.
Co-stars include Emma Roberts (Hotel for Dogs, Valentine’s Day), Zoe Kravitz, Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You), Billy Magnussen (As the World Turns), Rory Culkin (The Zodiac), Charlie Saxton (Hung), Â Isiah Whitlock Jr. (The Wire, Brooklyn’s Finest), Jermaine Crawford (The Wire) and Ambyr Childers (All My Children).
I could go on, but I think MTV sums it up pretty nicely on their preview:
‘Twelve’ Movie Trailer: Chace Crawford Plays Grittier Version Of ‘Gossip Girl’ Self
by Terri Schwartz
We love ourselves some Chace Crawford, but we’re pretty disappointed in his choice for his first film role in two years. Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve” debuted at Sundance to some not-so-great reviews, but we figured we’d wait to judge the film for ourselves.
Thanks to a new trailer (see it after the jump), we’re pretty sure that all Chace did was sign on for “Gossip Girl” the movie. Seriously, check out 1:04 to 1:08 and tell me Joel didn’t just cast Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf look alikes.
Chace’s character White Mike (hah!) is a drug dealer on the upper east side of Manhattan, who works alongside 50 Cent’s Lionel. Emma Roberts is White Mike’s sort-of girlfriend Molly who thinks he is working for his dad (yeah, we have no idea how this is supposed to work out either). Oh, and did we mention that Kiefer Sutherland is the narrator? Because Kiefer Sutherland is the narrator.
There are also a lot of rich New Yorkers who like to party and may or may not be important characters to the plot (cue the Serena and Blair look alikes here). And there is a drug called Twelve that’s “like coke and ecstasy” that the Blair look alike gets so addicted she has sex with 50 Cent to keep getting it and White Mike is pressured to start selling.
We might be a little bit more forgiving with Joel Schumacher’s latest if this same story hadn’t been told again and again over the past few years. “Gossip Girl” aside, there was last year’s unsuccessful “The Informers” (which also debuted at Sundance) as well as earlier Bret Easton Ellis adaptation “Rules of Attraction.” Then there was Rian Johnson’s debut 2006 film “Brick,” which told the teen drug story much more intelligently than “Twelve” looks like it is going to.
