An official trailer has been released for Zero Charisma, Audience Award winner at the SXSW Film Festival, which tells the story of a group of fantasy role-playing friends who are broken apart when a new player comes in and dethrones the game’s master, forcing him to try and expose the newcomer as a fraud.
If you missed it, you can check out our own FamousMonster’s review of the movie right here, and you can check out the trailer and a synopsis below.
SYNOPSIS:
As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, Scott (Sam Eidson) leads his friends in a weekly quest through mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother’s kitchen. But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip””along with everything else in his life””when neo-nerd hipster Miles (Garrett Graham) joins the game, winning over the group with his confident charm and dethroning Scott with an unexpected coup. Caught in delusions of grandeur, Scott must roll the dice and risk everything to expose Miles as the fraud he believes him to be. A darkly comedic fable of epic proportions, Zero Charisma is an ode to nerds from every realm.
Trailer
[Source: Deadline]
Different tone completely from the SXSW trailer I saw recently.
Comment by James T Ramsay — September 19, 2013 @ 7:49 am