2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the start to Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, and to commemorate that milestone, he announced earlier this year that he’ll be releasing two long-awaited installments, each of which was accompanied with a live-action trailer.
The next installment of the series is Battle Ground, and during this year’s virtual Dragon Con, he debuted the trailer for the novel.
Book trailers can be a bit of a hit-or-miss marketing tool for the publishing industry, but Butcher and his team went all out for this project. Peace Talks got its own short teaser directed by Priscilla Spencer earlier this year, which featured a number of actors playing scenes from the book.
Now, Battle Ground gets its own slick teaser, featuring plenty of scenes from the upcoming novel, teasing a violent confrontation filled with magic, rocket launchers, and horrifying, apocalyptic scenes that Wizard Harry Dresden must confront as Chicago faces a Titan bent on subjugating the city.
Battle Ground is set to hit bookstores on September 29th.
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These trailers are so cringy. The guy who played Harry is just awful.
@1 They’re much better with the sound off. Great costumes!
Not my idea of what Harry looks like at all but I guess that’s what Butcher sees and it’s his story after all. I thought he’d look a bit meaner and hard.
I’ve been holding off on reading Peace Talks so I can binge the two books together, it’s been hard, this trailer kind of helps but I wish they’d just make a good adaptation of it already.
I always picture Harry and Karen from the oh so short lived TV show – I thought they were pretty well cast.
Terrible. Why make a trailer with high school level talent?
The acting is not…great, but how big a budget do you really think they had? It’s fine.
Are we finally going to see Mab do more than just be malevolently threatening? I am SO EXCITE.
not a Dresden files fan but just wanted to say cinder spires book 2 is 3rd behind the winds of winter and shades of gray 2 as my most wanted book…
I am surprised to not see a Battle Ground review so far here. It has been a week since the book was released.