Poster for Brigsby Bear starring Mark Hamill and Kyle Mooney released!

June 19th 2017, 1:26pm

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

I'm really looking forward to the dark comedy BRIGSBY BEAR. I just love the story about, according to the official press release from Sony Pictures Classics, "Brigsby Bear Adventures…a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James (Kyle Mooney). When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, he sets out to finish the story himself and must learn to cope with the realities of a new world that he knows nothing about."

So a darker TRUMAN SHOW about coming to terms with reality after escaping a fictional world? Add on to the return of Mark Hamill as Mooney's creepy kidnapper father – as well as the Lynchian nightmare world of Brigsby Bear itself – and you've got the recipe for a great, or at least interesting film.

In either case, the studio has released a new one-sheet for the film, which you can look at below!

I like it! I especially am fond of how the moon – while presumably symbolizing Hamill’s kidnapper as an imposing figure over Mooney’s life – also evokes children’s TV iconography (in this case an inversion of the baby face in the sun from TELETUBBIES). Pretty stylish and cool, in my opinion.