Movie poster screw-ups!

[CellPhoneFred]

I was looking at the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly with trusty Harrison Ford on the cover in full Indiana Jones mode, and noticed how Indy is known for his two day old facial hair/stubble. However, on the Amsel drawn 1st issue "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" poster, Amsel depicts Indiana with some minor facial stubble alright, but also with an almost full-on mustache to make even Burt Reynolds blush!

http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blogimages/ddm/ROTLAPoster01.jpg

This got me to wondering, are there any other notable movie poster screw-ups out there? We've had almost 100 years of movie posters now, so there's got to be some problems out there. Wrong hair color, left handedness versus right, reversed imagery, misspellings or just plain bad drawings of the principal actors, what have ya got?

Please post the posters/images in question if you can. Thanks!

[Drifter]

Never saw Princess Leah with curves like this!

[CellPhoneFred]

Never saw Princess Leah with curves like this!

Well, at least they got Conan The Barbarian's, I mean Luke Skywalker's physique right! ;)

[93curr]

'Chasing Amy'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EHH08VR1L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNjEzMDUwMDc3N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDA3 NjY3._V1._CR60,0,360,360_SS80_.jpg

You'd think they could at least have photoshopped Affleck's beard back on for the DVD cover.

[MrPeabody]

Poster screw-ups? How about an advertising campaign screw-up, perhaps the worst in US movie history.

"Boys, I've got it! My idea for the poster -- No photos! No illustrations! No actors' faces! No slogans! No nothing! JUST THE TITLE AND THE CREDITS!! IT'LL BE A HIT!! The idea alone sells itself!"

[Oatsdad]

Poster screw-ups? How about an advertising campaign screw-up, perhaps the worst in US movie history.

"Boys, I've got it! My idea for the poster -- No photos! No illustrations! No actors' faces! No slogans! No nothing! JUST THE TITLE AND THE CREDITS!! IT'LL BE A HIT!! The idea alone sells itself!"

Like an ad campaign that touts the romance between Cort and Gordon would've made it a hit? :confused:

[Oatsdad]

I was looking at the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly with trusty Harrison Ford on the cover in full Indiana Jones mode, and noticed how Indy is known for his two day old facial hair/stubble. However, on the Amsel drawn 1st issue "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" poster, Amsel depicts Indiana with some minor facial stubble alright, but also with an almost full-on mustache to make even Burt Reynolds blush!


I have a copy of this poster, and the mustache isn't THAT heavy. The repro you show makes it look thicker than it does on the actual poster. I don't think there's anything wrong with the facial hair as shown on the poster - looks fine to me... :shrug:

[CellPhoneFred]

I have a copy of this poster, and the mustache isn't THAT heavy. The repro you show makes it look thicker than it does on the actual poster. I don't think there's anything wrong with the facial hair as shown on the poster - looks fine to me... :shrug:

Well...I have the ORIGINAL (la-dee-da!) theatrical one-sheet poster purchased "back in the day" at one of those nostalgia/collector's shows that used to cycle through my local mall every few seasons, and the upper lip area has much more artist pencil activity going on than on the rest of his face, so I am sticking to my original story, BUCKO! :evil:

Regardless, from a good distance (like the distance from the poster advertised outside of the cinema and your car driving by at 5 mph), it looks like he has a mustache.

[jupiter8]

This doesn't really count as a mistake, but the first time I saw it, I certainly looked again:

[Ski Bum]

The early posters for the 1976 remake of King Kong showed the giant ape on the top of the World Trade Center fighting off jets. But when they actually got around to filming the movie, NYC would not allow the filmmakers to buzz lower Manhattan with military jets. The later posters show the ape being attacked by helicopters as in the actual movie.

[Tim H.]

Another Star Wars oops. The original poster for Empire Strikes Back without Lando:

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this was pulled relatively quickly and replaced with art that included Mr. Billy Dee Williams.

[Ski Bum]

The jets became copters.

[mr_mjb1960]

Terri Garr's name on certain posters of Head Mis-spelled her first name as "Terry",while others Mis-Spelled Micky's name as the mouse..you know,"Mickey"! Michael Boyce

[Pinknik]

The jets became copters.

The scale appears to be thoroughly effed, as well, and what is he holding in the second poster?

[Drifter]

The scale appears to be thoroughly effed, as well, and what is he holding in the second poster?South America :)

[CellPhoneFred]

The scale appears to be thoroughly effed, as well, and what is he holding in the second poster?

Commuter train/subway car? They have both in NYC, but there are no commuter trains in lower Manhattan below 14th street, I think.

It could even be a commercial airliner with the wings already gone.

[Jimbo]

The scale appears to be thoroughly effed, as well, and what is he holding in the second poster?

Right, in that version, Kong was nowhere near big enough to stride the two towers.

[xman]

With it's extremely low budget this famous misleading poster promises a so called Fifty Foot Woman (more like 200 foot). Anyway a favorite of mine. :righton:

http://www.imdb.com/rg/videos-title/summary//video/screenplay/vi163053849/

[Drifter]

Commuter train/subway car? They have both in NYC, but there are no commuter trains in lower Manhattan below 14th street, I think.

It could even be a commercial airliner with the wings already gone.A bit easier to see here, but I'm still not sure what it is.
The jets became copters.

Still one jet in the revised poster.

[nosticker]

The original poster of Al Pacino's LOOKING FOR RICHARD omitted the director of photography. It listed nearly everyone else!



Dan

[vinyl anachronist]

Terri Garr's name on certain posters of Head Mis-spelled her first name as "Terry",while others Mis-Spelled Micky's name as the mouse..you know,"Mickey"! Michael Boyce


It's "Teri."

[Drifter]

Well, at least they got Conan The Barbarian's, I mean Luke Skywalker's physique right! ;)Well, yeah, him too. I didn't really notice him. :D

[Oatsdad]

Right, in that version, Kong was nowhere near big enough to stride the two towers.

Which was SUCH a disappointment when I saw the flick in 1976. I think I still loved it - my nine-year-old self was so geeked to see it due to the hype that no disappointment could occur - but I was bummed that Kong wasn't super-huge and able to straddle both towers... :thumbsdn:

[Oatsdad]

The jets became copters.

This misses the biggest mistake of all: referring to the dreadful 1976 "King" as "the most exciting original motion picture event of all time"! :D

(How in the heck could they call it "original", anyway? It was a freakin' REMAKE! :confused:)

[Drifter]

This misses the biggest mistake of all: referring to the dreadful 1976 "King" as "the most exciting original motion picture event of all time"! :D

(How in the heck could they call it "original", anyway? It was a freakin' REMAKE! :confused:)I read that they decided it sounded better than "unoriginal". ;)