Director Will Gluck blames himself for poorly received ‘Anyone But You’ teaser, saying, ‘We tried to get too cute with it.’ https://t.co/FOLM8rw83i
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 16, 2023
Director Will Gluck is taking responsibility for the poor reception of the initial teaser trailer of his upcoming romcom Anyone But You.
“I blame myself,” the co-writer and director says. “The teaser wasn’t well received and I put that completely on my own shoulders. We tried to get too cute with it. It is a big fun comedy, and if you saw that teaser without anything else, you’d think, ‘Is someone going to get killed? Is this a thriller?’ That was a mistake on my part. I just wanted people to lean in and say, ‘What is this?'”
“People leaned in [to the teaser] and said, ‘I’m not going to like this,’ which is not what the movie is,” adds Gluck. “The movie an edgy R-rated comedy with romance and farcical elements. It’s big music numbers and wish fulfillment. You get to see sunny Australia in the middle of winter in the West. That’s what you’re going to see in the trailer. So wipe that [teaser] out of your memory.”
Reshoots were recently completed after 2 days. Anyone But You hits theaters next month on Dec. 22.
