Robbie Graham
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...
