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Why the Director and Marketing Team on Den of Thieves 2 Disagreed on That Big Spoiler in the Trailers · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: The new Gerard Butler action heist Den of Thieves Too
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Speaker 2: had a stellar opening weekend, and prepare for a spoiler
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Speaker 2: alert What's ahead? Kind of, It's only a spoiler if
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Speaker 2: you haven't seen the trailer or even the promotional material
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Speaker 2: for the film, because the marketing team chose to reveal
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Speaker 2: up front a big twist in this installment to our Butler,
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Speaker 2: who plays a cop, gets involved in the heist. It's
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Speaker 2: an interesting decision to reveal that much, and one that
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Speaker 2: writer director Christian guda Gas didn't entirely support. He tells
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Speaker 2: the Hollywood Report, the trailers are cut by the studio,
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Speaker 2: and I personally am a fan of teaser trailers that
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Speaker 2: don't give away plot details. But conventional wisdom is that
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Speaker 2: it helps market a film. You have to trust the
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Speaker 2: marketing team who knows what they're doing. My personal taste
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Speaker 2: is that I prefer teaser trailers that reveal less of
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Speaker 2: the plot. That's Den of Thieves two director Christian Gudagast,
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Speaker 2: who might have a point about letting the marketing team
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Speaker 2: do their job. His film debut number one over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: surprising experts by outperforming Mufasa, the Lion King.
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