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Will Ferrell has a quality flash astatine the commencement of GM and Netflix’s associated commercial for Super Bowl LVII. “General Motors is going electric, and Netflix is joining successful by including much EVs [electric vehicles] successful their movies and shows,” the Anchorman star says. But he’s not successful San Diego astatine the commencement of the spot. He’s successful Las Vegas, specifically connected the acceptable of the archetypal Netflix movie Army of the Dead. After all, Will muses that if you’re going to look down a legion of zombies, “why not get swarmed portion successful an EV?”
From there, Will gets “voluntarily kidnapped” for Squid Game and kicks disconnected a circuit of the Netflix library. However, Will says that the streaming elephantine won’t interject EVs if they don’t fit. In situations similar with Vanessa Lachey from Love is Blind? Sure? But backmost successful the 1980s, other Priah Ferguson from Stranger Things? Nope. Bridgerton? Nope. “But, anyplace other that makes sense? Why not marque much of those cars electric?” ponders Will. “It’s the slightest you tin do.”
In the extended commercial, Will interacts much with the Netflix alums, including Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski from Queer Eye. It besides gives a accidental for viewers to spot the enactment of EVs from GM, including the MC HUMMER EV, GMC Sierra EV Denali, Cadillac LYRIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV, and Chevrolet Blazer EV. Plus, fans larn the sanction of the zombie that infected Will: it’s Gordon, arsenic successful Gordon Tarpley, the actor/professional creator and IG property who took a wound retired of Will.
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(General Motors/Netflix)“Just the teaser… Super excited to spot the full @generalmotors advertisement adjacent weekend!” Gordon shared connected IG a time earlier the afloat advertisement was released. “This was truthful overmuch amusive to beryllium a portion of. Biggest acknowledgment to @justin.raleigh and @fracturedfxinc for throwing my sanction successful the cookware and to @jkelmakeup for making maine look truthful beauteous connected the day!”
“At Netflix, we make shows and films that tin power civilization and spark meaningful conversations,” said Marian Lee, Netflix Chief Marketing Officer, successful a preNetflix’sase. “From the TikTok creation trends inspired by Wednesday to thoughtful discussions astir clime alteration with Don’t Look Up, we cognize that amusement tin thrust fandom and animate connections. GM is simply a taste person successful the car industry, and we are arrogant to spouse with them successful their efforts by amplifying the beingness of electrical vehicles successful our shows and films.”
In summation to the accrued EVs connected screen, Netflix volition instrumentality enactment “to go much sustainable down the camera wrong its productions by optimizing vigor use, past electrifying it, and decarbonizing the rest. To larn much visit: Sustainability.Netflix.com.”
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