The first trailer for Richard Linklater's long-awaited film, entitled Everybody Wants Some, has finally hit the internet. As Brooklyn Vegan reports, the award-winning director is calling it the "spiritual sequel" to his 1993 stoner cult classic, Dazed and Confused.
The film's title, of course, references the Van Halen song "Everybody Wants Some." It follows Jake, played by Glee's Blake Jenner, through his first year in college. It also features Ryan Guzman, Wyatt Russell and Tyler Hoechlin.
The film is due to premiere at SXSW in March. Watch the trailer below.
The brief, early glimpse of the movie evokes fond memories of its companion feature length. The comparisons run deeper than the fact that, as the AV Club reports, Dazed and Confused is named-dropped at least twice in the trailer.
For starters, both movies are about a group of slacker friends united by a shared sense of fratboy/jock humor, surrounded by beer and bongs. Both movies also emphasize a sense of place and time. Finally, while the official tracklist for the forthcoming sequel-of-sorts' soundtrack has yet to be released, it's probably safe to say that both films will also share the trait of killer soundtracks packed with jams from the late '70s and earlier '80s.
Everybody Wants Some, however, trades in high school hijinks for college baseball. Whereas Dazed and Confused follows several groups of Texas teenagers celebrating the start of summer on the last day of school in 1976 Austin, the forthcoming film is about different groups of adolescents just entering college, also in Austin, sometime in the first part of the '80s.
Reports from early test screenings from this past summer reveal that while the forthcoming film's title is taken from the Van Halen song, the soundtrack features music from Talking Heads, Blondie, Pat Benatar and Devo among others, Slash Film states. 1980 was an interesting time for the disparate music scenes represented by the arena rock gods Van Halen and the new wave vanguards rumored to be on the soundtrack, because as different as the scenes may seem now, it would absolutely make sense for a college freshman to dabble in all of those genres within one afternoon.
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