Paramount Pictures released a nostalgic and cringe-inducing new trailer for jackass forever.
The trailer features faces old and new in a variety of dangerous and compromising situations, including Steve-O in an exploding porta-potty and Danger Ehren taking a punch to the groin from an MMA fighter.
Created by Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze and Jeff Tremaine, Jackass debuted on MTV in 2000, originally running for three seasons and 25 episodes until 2002. The series centered on Knoxville and his friends performing wacky stunts and pranks on one another, sometimes in a public setting. While the show itself was short-lived, it spawned four theatrical films (including Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa), one straight-to-DVD film, two television specials and several spinoff shows, including Viva La Bam and Wildboyz.
Shortly after the first trailer for jackass forever debuted, PETA issued a statement condemning Knoxville and company for the film's use of animals. "Jackass stunts are violent and vulgar, but if the talent is willing and the wounds are self-inflicted, that’s one thing—however, it’s quite another when animals are exploited, harassed, and harmed: That’s cruelty," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote. "The Jackass Forever trailer shows Knoxville’s crew provoking a snake and a bull to the point of attack, treating a tarantula like a game piece, and coercing a chained bear to eat honey off a bound participant. Four months before its release, Jackass Forever has already risked normalizing animal exploitation and legitimizing the cruel exhibitors who pimp out animals for productions. PETA is urging producers to remove stunts involving animals from the film."
The following month, Paramount Pictures, MTV, Dickhouse Entertainment, Gorilla Flicks, Knoxville, Tremaine and Jonze were hit with a wrongful termination lawsuit from former Jackass star Bam Margera, who was fired from jackass forever. "Paramount's inhumane treatment of Margera cannot be countenanced," the suit stated. "Margera was made to endure psychological torture in the form of a sham Wellness Agreement, and then ultimately terminated for his protected class status due to his medical condition, and his complaints about Defendants' discriminatory conduct towards him."
jackass forever arrives in theaters Feb. 4.
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