Posted on 12/12/2008 6:50:28 PM PST by CE2949BB
(CNN) -- Call it the second coming.
Klaatu the spaceman first visited these parts in Robert Wise's 1951 Cold War classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," when he threatened to blow us all up unless we stopped threatening to do the job for him.
Klaatu wasn't exactly greeted with open arms back then -- he was shot and hounded for his troubles -- and if the earth has moved on over the past half century, you wouldn't know it from the trigger-happy welcoming committee that surrounds his luminous snowball of a space craft in New York's Central Park.
Where sci-fi films in the 1950s used to see red(s), today they go green. Directed by Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") and scripted by David Scarpa ("The Last Castle"), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" 2.0 ditches the Cold War theme. Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) means to save the planet, but war isn't the problem. Mankind is the problem.
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I’m a bit glad they are taking their time. There’s really no reason to rush it, since Jackson did so well on LOTR and the Hobbit is somewhat connected, but can be outside it as well.
I’d like to see Jackson and Del Toro work together on it, I think they’d make a fantastic prequel.
Speak for yourself. I don't enjoy being patronized by Hollywood liberals. I won't support their BS productions.
Jacson will be Executive Producer and Co Writer. He implies that he will not be a hands on Producer, and will leave the creative control to Del Toro.
Should be very good news, even if it takes a few more years. I’ll be surprised if it’s out by 2011.
LOL!
What an awesome tagline that would make.
Klaatu barada nicto!
Does Gort eat hippies? If so, I’ll go see the movie - twice.
Now I want surround sound!
“The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Better than the original.”
No Way!
“The 1951 Sims version was absolutely brilliant.”
I like your thinking...One of my favorite flicks!!
I re-read the books -- starting with The Hobbit -- each year (during the heat of the day -- in my hammock) when we camp out. Many of Jackson's scenes (example: the Argonath) will forever be my mental images of the scenes as I read...
You have obviously never watched MST3K.
Day After Tommorow was bad, but some MST3K movies are so bad, without the MST3K treatment, they make your hair hurt.
A little known fact is that Dame Kathleen Harrison, Scrooge’s housekeeper, Mrs. Dilber, had a royal ball with that film. Here is a great Shakespearean actress doing her “Cockney” best in her “Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!” while murdering the English language.
My heart glows when I watch that movie. The acting was great!
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Have to put that one on my Netflix Queue, Duke.
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” Here is a great Shakespearean actress doing her “Cockney” best in her “Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!” “
And if my memory serves me right adding..”in keeping with the situation !”...or something to that affect.
Very weak minds might actually be convinced that the propaganda is truth.
You should stick to the Discovery Channel.
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