MaXXXine/Trailer transcripts

==Teaser Trailer==
==Theatrical Trailer #1==
The trailer begins with the A24 logo posing as the Hollywood sign. A casting director looks over photos of Maxine Minx (Mia Goth).
:Casting Director: So...Maxine, your agent tells us you're quite a popular name in adult film and entertainment, is that correct?
Cut to a screen reading "HER DREAM WAS TO BE A STAR," which slowly zooms in. It crossfades to Maxine, dressed as a nurse and spraying her own hair.
:Casting Director: I'm curious, did you always want to be in that line of work?
:Maxine: I always wanted to be famous.
Cut to black, and fade in on Grauman's Chinese Theater, the night of the premiere of The Puritan II. Maxine blows a kiss to the adoring crowd, then we cut to a camera view of her screen test. She runs her hand across her hair.
:Casting Director: If you need to read off the sides we gave you, just go ahead, alright?
:Maxine: I know the lines.
:Casting Director: (Reading from the script) She turns to the camera and, through her trauma...addresses the lens directly.
Maxine looks into the camera. We then cut to her getting into the car, as the year "1985" appears on-screen, number-by-number. Animotion's "Obsession" begins in the background. After some driving, she's in a video store.
:Maxine: Name five celebrities who got their start in horror movies.
:Clerk (Moses Sumney): Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta, Demi Moore, Brooke Shields, and--
:Maxine: Maxine FUCKIN' Minx!
Another title reads "BUT HOLLYWOOD CAN BE A KILLER." The screen goes static, and we cut to a view of Maxine and Tabby (Halsey) walking down the street.
:Tabby: I don't like walkin' out here with that frickin' Night Stalker guy out on the loose.
Cut to various newscasts.
:Anchors: The Night Stalker... / Night Stalker... / Night Stalker... / ...is terrorizing Los Angeles.
The Night Stalker lowers his blade, and blood is splattered across the videotapes. We then cut to Maxine outside Tabby's car.
:Maxine: I can handle myself. (She then throws a gun onto her bed.)
:Tabby: So said every dead girl in Hollywood.
The Night Stalker flicks his switchblade, and we cut to a neon sign reading "FROM DIRECTOR TI WEST." People are dancing in a nightclub.
:Detective 1: Maxine... I'm the private detective hired to find you. (Cut to Maxine walking through an alley, as a remix of Laura Branigan's "Self Control" plays. We then fade to a big building.) My employer is a very powerful man. (Someone loads their gun, and we cut to a building with a sign reading "BATES MOTEL VACANCY." Maxine looks on.) The past... ain't finished with you. It's gonna keep knockin' at your door.
A mysterious figure walks toward a terrified Maxine, before we cut to "THIS YEAR." A couple of corpses are shown, and two detectives (Bobby Cannavale and Michelle Monaghan) leave their car.
:Anchor: Tragically, another victim of the Night Stalker.
More images follow, including the Night Stalker raising his knife in front of a sign reading "VIDEO," and a gurney being rolled out onto an ambulance.
:Detective 2: If I knew three people who were murdered in three days, I'd be pretty scared. What are you hiding, Maxine?
Further scenes include the Night Stalker at a peep show, and Maxine outside her hotel room, opening a package. She puts a tape in the VCR, with "FOR MAXINE" on the end label. On-screen, it reads "POLICE EVIDENCE Texas Sheriff's Department."
:Maxine: If I tell you something, we've got confidentiality.
In her hotel room, Lorraine's scream upon finding the dead body in Howard and Pearl's basement is heard.
:? (Giancarlo Esposito): What'd you do?
Maxine picks up her gun, and we cut to her in a golf cart, being carried onto the set.
:Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki): This is the defining role of your career. (On set, the makeup department is finished putting fake blood across the mouth of one of the actresses [Lily Collins], who smiles at Maxine.) Whatever is going on in your life that's interfering with this picture, squash it. (One of the detectives pulls his jacket back, revealing a gun in his pocket, and the music stops.)
:Maxine: I intend to.
As the music resumes, various shots of Maxine are intercut with titles reading "THE WHOLE WORLD," "WILL KNOW," and "HER NAME." Multiple characters say her name, and then we fade in on a close-up of her.
:Maxine: You're a fuckin' movie star.
In quick succession, the main cast is shown, with their respective names over them: "MIA GOTH," "ELIZABETH DEBICKI," "MOSES SUMNEY," "MICHELLE MONAGHAN," "BOBBY CANAVALE," "HALSEY," "LILY COLLINS," "WITH GIANCARLO ESPOSITO," "AND KEVIN BACON." More shots follow in quick succession...
:?: Drop it!
...and three "X"s fade in before the full title reveals itself: "MAXXXINE." The credits are shown, followed by "COMING SOON."
==Theatrical Trailer #2==
We begin by panning down on a stormy night in a forest. The A24 logo is shown, with "presents" underneath.
:Announcer: A24 presents...
An unseen figure picks up an apple.
:Announcer: ...the follow-up to the film that possessed a nation. (She eats it, while the movie's logo and "COPYRIGHT MCMLXXXV MARS INTERNATIONAL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" zoom out.) The Puritan II. (When the person finishes eating, blood appears on her lips.)
:Bender: Cut! (We cut to the set of the movie, as "Obsession" begins. A bell rings.) The blood's wrong.
She reaches into a bucket reading "SKIN BLOOD," and puts some on the actress's lips.
:Bender: Mona Bennett, meet Maxine Minx.
:Molly Bennett (Lily Collins): Pleased to meet you. (They shake hands.) Uh, sorry.
:Bender: We've all got blood on our hands now.
Cut to a black background, with "THE FINAL CHAPTER" visible at first. "in the X TRILOGY" cuts in.
:? (Kevin Bacon): The past (Cut to him and Maxine.) ain't finished with you, Maxine. (She pulls out a newspaper clipping, with the headline "THE TEXAS PORN STAR MASSACRE." Cut to a sign reading "BATES MOTEL," with Maxine still seeing Pearl looking out at her.) Ain't nowhere to hide, that's show business. (Back to the duo.) You'll never work in this town again.
A group of protesters picket against The Puritan, with signs reading "HORROR = PORN," "HORROR IS NOT ART," "STOP EXPLOITATION," "THE PURITAN IS BLASPHEMY," "HOLLYWOOD IS SATAN'S PLAYGROUND," "SATAN STOLE MY DAUGHTER," "SACRILEGE IS NOT GOD'S BUSINESS," "HOLLYWOOD NEEDS A CHANGE OF SCENE," and "OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER." Maxine is at a phone booth, then we cut to the Night Stalker in the shadows. Cut again, this time to the morgue.
:Detective 1: Maxine... what are you hiding?
Maxine puts the tape marked "FOR MAXINE" in the hotel room VCR. The music changes to "Self Control" as she watches the tape.
:Maxine: I've seen the devil... stalking me. (As she says this, the scene changes to Maxine doing a peep show, with the Night Stalker watching.) I can feel his power.
The music stops as Maxine approaches a door. In comes the Night Stalker, who throws a bag over her head. "Self Control" resumes, and blood is then splattered on a shelf full of videotapes. Cut to a screen reading "on JULY 5." Maxine is at the premiere, blowing kisses.
:Bender: You've made it to the belly of the beast. (A quick montage, including Maxine punching out the PI.) You must eliminate all distractions. (Cut to "THE WHOLE WORLD," then back to the movie.) Or the beast will spit you right back out. (Cut to "WILL KNOW," then a confrontation between Maxine and the Night Stalker.)
:Maxine: Drop it! (The knife is dropped.) Time to pay for your sins.
:?: It's America's newest scream queen. (As he says this, we see Maxine getting into her car, with a custom-made license plate reading "MAXXXINE," then cut to "HER NAME.")
:Maxine: Maxine FUCKIN' Minx!
The cast is shown, three members at a time, until we get to Maxine firing a rifle. Cut to black, then fade in on Maxine's audition.
:Casting Director: Nicely done.
:Maxine: Thank you.
The film's logo is shown, then we cut to a screen reading "HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR MAXINE MINX? TEXT (213) 788-1211," and finally, to "IN THEATERS JULY 5."
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