This looks like it’s going to be a great summer for sci-fi. Or maybe it’s just that I read io9.com waaaay more than, like, Entertainment Weekly.
There are two in particular I’m looking forward to that my dad’s going to love, because they conform to his ideal movie plot: protagonist[s] stranded somewhere creepy with something[s] bad, cut off from civilization and hope of rescue (see Alien, Aliens, Tremors, original The Thing, Predator, The Abyss, etc). The first of these is Moon, directed by Duncan Jones (née Zowie Bowie). Sam Rockwell stars as a miner all alone on a moon colony who begins to think he isn’t alone. Kevin Spacey is robot voice cameo. Then there’s Pandorum, which is being called “Lost, in space.” The official synopsis is: “Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they’ve been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they’re actually not alone — and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.” That Dennis Quaid stars as a “Corporal Bower” (spelled the fake Anglicized non-German way, like me!) and that Norman Reedus from Boondock Saints is in it, well, that’s just yummy buttercream icing!
Now, I’d thought that Roberto Rodriguez’s Rose McGowan vehicle Red Sonja remake was shelved by personal drama, but apparently that will be out late this fall. Guy Ritchie’s phenomenal-looking Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law Sherlock Holmes will be out in November, which I am beyond excited about. The new Terminator flick is being released this summer, and of course Inglourious Basterds, which I’ve only been waiting almost a decade for, is coming this fall. There’s also a movie called Nine coming out in November, which looks very yuppy-angsty-eh, but stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Dame Judi, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz and Marion Cotillard, and therefore has to be amazing. And 9, by Tim Burton’s Coraline and Nightmare-helming protégé.
Terry Gilliam’s long-long-long-(by me)-awaited Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is supposedly coming out this year, and Tim Burton’s live-action Alice is Wonderland in 2010. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? Cliché, but check. Helena is the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway the White Queen? Oh, yes. And Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar with roles for Stephen Fry and Christopher Lee (as the Jabberwock—be still my heart!) and Crispin Glover? Yes, yes, and Molly Bloom says YES.
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