Why in the world did that need to be 6 minutes long?

@Dan Tralder: It's a promo trailer to help sell the film for distribution.

This looks terrific, Brad, and I didn't know a thing about it until now. Huge fan of Jim Thompson's novels and of these interesting film versions:

The Grifters
Coup de Torchon (based on 'Pop. 1280')
The Getaway (both adaptations badly botched)
After Dark, My Sweet (the same sort of rundown rural setting as we see here in The Killer Inside Me)

After Kubrick claimed most of the credit for The Killing screenplay almost entirely written by Thompson, the novelist let Kubrick bend him over again by taking top credit for Paths of Glory too.

His voice… I hate it.

could be this coming decade's American Psycho, only i see this being all over the academy's radar.

I feel for Affleck's character. I felt the same way toward Jessica Alba after Fantastic 4

This looks like both a major critical and box office success. The Stacy Keach film was s**t and did not come close to doing the book justice.This, on the other hand, looks like it could hit just the right mark with difficult psychological material to successfully transfer to the screen. Props to Winterbottom, Affleck, and Hudson for what looks to be a highlight for 2010.

I actually just heard about this from the article in Filmmaker and was excited to see it. After seeing the promo trailer I can't wait.

Please forgive the directness of this statement, but this movie is going to drive itself solely on having Jessica Alba's ass in it and they are going to try to keep people wondering as long as possible if her tits will be in it too. I like Casey Affleck, I hope that the film is worth something, but it just reminds me of all the tease jobs movies have made with Jessica Alba and then the movie lacks substance.

Looks good. I miss the delicious voice of Lou Ford (Affleck) from the novel: the humorous sadist whose method is try try to bore to death the people he talks to with mindless cliche. But this looks like a good alternate vision of the story.