Franklyn has a trailer.

Franklyn — a story set partly in a parallel universe dominated by some sort of religious organization — now has a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu-jf1PbSw
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The trailer doesn’t really clarify what the movie is all about, but so far, the story has sounded somewhat sprawling or confusing whenever people have tried to sum it up in a few words, or sentences, or paragraphs — so I’m not surprised that the trailer barely even tries to spell out the various plot points.

Without a clear narrative hook, the trailer has to make its pitch with images — and for some reason I can’t shake the idea that the Johnny Depp character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) has been cloned repeatedly, and that the many copies of him have been dropped into the middle of Dark City (1998).

Hopefully the actual film will be better than that image suggests.