Buried Teaser Trailer and Clip: Will Ryan Reynolds Shine Underground?

Posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

We were surprised and interested when word came down that Ryan Reynolds would be the star of what amounts to a one-man show in the movie Buried. As details came out — Reynolds plays a civilian contractor trapped in a coffin with only a cell phone and a lighter — the movie got more intriguing. Now there’s a teaser trailer and a scene clip to show what director Rodrigo Cortés has in mind.

MTV has the first teaser trailer today, in preparation for the film’s debut at Sundance. It’s a grainy clip, meant to represent a cell phone video that Reynolds’ character shoots to communicate a ransom demand to the outside world. It’s an effective little piece of film that does a nice job communicating the core idea of the film.

The only thing that worries me here is the longer clip also hosted by MTV. I understand that with only one actor and one setting on which to focus, there’s a need to do something to keep the film from being too static. But if there is a lot of that rotating lens trick that we see in the first half of this scene, I might lose my mind. Not that this makes me any less interested in seeing the film.

This is the official synopsis:

Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a U.S. citizen working as a contract driver in Iraq. After a swift and sudden attack on his convoy, he awakens to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a cell phone, and little memory of how he ended up there. Faced with limited oxygen and unlimited panic, Paul finds himself in a tension-filled race against time to escape this claustrophobic deathtrap before it’s too late.

Here are the embeds; the teaser is first, then the scene.