Prometheus: the making of a new myth
“What made
Ridley Scott revisit the world of his iconic movie Alien more than 30 years
later? The reasons are complicated, writes Damon Wise, and the results aren't
what you'd expect.”
Article featuring
comments from Ridley Scott indicating that Prometheus might be the beginning of
a whole new franchise. Read it here.
Men in Black 3 stuff
MIB 3 director Barry
Sonnenfeld tells io9 what he has learned from the
second movie’s mistakes and how his threequel is better as a result.
Meanwhile,
Lee Spiegel of The Huffington Post
reminds us of the real-life MIB encounters that inspired
the movie franchise.
Finally,
on the MIB front, it’s an “illegal alien” face-off between MIB 3 and Mars
Attacks over at Bryce Zabel’s Movie Smackdown site. Go see who wins!
Former SETI Director: Hollywood’s aliens are too nasty!
Former SETI Director Jill Tarter tells Universe Today that Hollywood’s
alien invasion movies are a big bag of bollocks… but phrases it more politely
than that…
“While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer
or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree. If aliens were able to visit Earth
that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough
not to need slaves, food, or other planets. If aliens were to come here it
would be simply to explore.
Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn’t be their first
extraterrestrial encounter, either. We should look at movies like ‘Men in Black
III,’ ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Battleship’ as great entertainment and metaphors for
our own fears, but we should not consider them harbingers of alien visitation.”
Read the
full article here.
ALF! You know, from the ‘80s?
Lovable
‘80s TV alien ALF is headed for the big screen according to his creator Paul
Fusco, who tells The Hollywood Reporter:
“ALF could be more outspoken now than ever, because the
world is a whole different place than the '80s. And I think the character still
stands up and certainly has more to say now than ever,” he says. “I think we
would approach it in a fresh way. I don’t think we would duplicate the TV show,
but I think we would maybe put it in a storyline where we would explain how ALF
got here and put him with a new family and let the character speak for
himself.”
Read more about the history – and possible future – of
ALF, here.
Sticking
with the ‘80s theme...
Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats... ho!!!
This
is old news (it was first reported in February of last
year), but I’ve never mentioned it on Silver
Screen Saucers until now. Five years ago, Warner
Bros. Pictures announced it would be producing a big screen CGI adaptation of
the 1980s animated TV series, ThunderCats.
However, the project got lost in development hell, and there it remains to this
day. Fans of the heroic alien cat-people thingies might be interested in the
following test footage for the movie that found its way online last year (don’t
get excited, though. It’s naff)...
The best alien invasion movie ever?!
Last
but not least, visionary filmmakers Michael Bay (Transformers) and Peter
Berg (Battleship) have teamed-up to bring us their dream project ;-)
Could this be the greatest alien invasion movie ever? View the trailer here...
Just came from seeing MIB3.
ReplyDeleteI seriously doubt there will be an MIB4.
Don't get me wrong. The movie had its moments and the old chemistry between Smith and Jones is still there, along with how well Brolin plays the part of a younger K.
But the movie felt short of my expectations. I think in the end I preferred the 2nd one better.
Thanks Miguel, yes, that's pretty much how I expect to feel after I go see the movie tonight.
DeleteWell, I saw it last night and, in essence, my review is: "meh". It was watchable and inoffensive, with some laughs to be had. Better than MIB 2 I felt, but not by much. UFOlogically, it was quite dull.
ReplyDeleteDitto :-/
Delete[[SPOILER ALERT]] One of the disappointing elements in the story is that the viral campaign kind of misled us to believe the Large Hadron Collider would be somehow involved in the movie plot —since time travel was involved, that could have worked pretty nicely IMO— You remember that weird hexagonal image that resembled the LHC? Turned to be nothing but a jumbo neuralizer :(
UFOlogically, I think the only meritorious element was the idea that the Earth is protected by some weird energy field. That immediately popped images of the shuttle videos in my head ;)
Youtube shouldn't give Michael Bay & Peter Berg ideas. Having said that it did look quite eerie at one point in the video so there is potential for a more abstract kind of alien invasion movie.
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