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Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:52PM New Photos from 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
Of course, in a perfect world, we'd never have remakes
or sequels. We'd have one movie that told the whole story perfectly, leaving no
questions unanswered, no stones unturned, and there would never be a reason to
revisit that idea again because the film is timeless and untouchable.
It doesn't work that way, and we're "treated" to remakes
and sequels all the time. Often, these are lousy, although I don't think you
could survey the entire landscape of unoriginal ideas and determine that the
majority are without their merits. It gets a little tricky when filmmakers want
to add something to the legacy of a classic film, say, for example,
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
For a lot of us, myself included, it's one of the first
great alien invasion movies and an important piece of science-fiction and pop
culture. But I don't think anyone can say that it's not outdated. After
all, it was released in 1951.Many contemporary audiences, who might still find quite
a bit to like about the basic story, would never be able to sit through the
Robert Wise version, even though it informed
many, many sci-fi movies that followed it.
The longer people go without seeing it, the less it will
mean years from now. So we have two options moving forward: Either let The
Day the Earth Stood Still slip further and further into the irrelevance or
introduce it a new audience by offering a modern version. And so here we are, a
few months away from the remake of
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
IGN has some great new photos from the film,
and as a service to them, we won't share all of them here. Please check out the
source to see them all. But this movie looks pretty damn ominous, if you ask me.
Keanu Reeves plays Klaatu, the visitor from
another planet. The film co-stars
Jennifer Connelly,
Jon Hamm,
John Cleese,
Kathy Bates, and
Jaden Smith.
The Day the Earth Stood Still invades on December 12th.
Reader Comments (15)
Er... You *might* want to check the source of that top picture. Unless this is the gay porno remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, of course...
Ditto that. Scary stuff there.
Think I fixed it. Goddamn hotlink...
The unforseen perils of hotlinking. Only Gort can save us now...
It showed up safe initially...Oh well, that's what happens when you get in a hurry: Male models start having ass sex on your website.
Take that as a warning, puny Earthlings. ;o)
I guess. Man, that was graphic. I normally just upload everything to my server to be safe but I thought, "Well, this is the only time I'll ever use this poster; why bother?" Now I know why.
Mmm. In all seriousness, the posters for the original DtESS were as much genre classics as the film itself. Whilst I'm not suggesting that messing around with such things is in any way dangerous... Well, actually, I think the remake is about as welcome as a hooker at an evangelical conference, but there you go...