Robotic Noir: Mars Express Dystopian Scifi
Mars Express is a French animated film with a film noir tone and structure, inspired by classic detective movies and featuring a female private investigator, set in a futuristic world where robots are being hacked and a conspiracy threatens to upend human-robot civilization, with influences from both Japanese animation and classic cinema.
SciFi Fans Rejoice Over Megalopolis Release Date?
Francis Ford Coppola’s highly divisive and unconventional sci-fi film, Megalopolis, has finally found a North American distributor in Lionsgate, and its release is set for September 2024, with the film breaking cinematic tradition and featuring a controversial fourth wall-breaking scene that presents a major challenge for theatrical showings.
‘Quiet Place’ Scifi Monsters Are Dumb
The monsters in A Quiet Place Part II behave in a confusing and contradictory manner in regards to their motives and reactions to sound, leading to questions about whether they kill for food or because of the sound itself, with possible answers in future films.
Jonathan Majors Isn’t Going Away Yet
Jonathan Majors will star in the revenge thriller Merciless, directed by Martin Villeneuve, which follows a CIA interrogator who must go to dark lengths to defeat a malevolent force that has overtaken the woman he loves, and will be produced by Christopher Tuffin, who aims to showcase his new disruptive media venture that stands against public opinion and selective prosecution, and the film will mark Majors’ return to acting after his conviction and participation in an intervention program following a domestic violence incident that led to his removal from the MCU and shelving of Magazine Dreams.
Bryce Dallas Howard Wants to be Scifi’s Next Big Director
Bryce Dallas Howard, known for her work on the Star Wars franchise, has expressed interest in directing Star Trek and has praised Terry Matalas’ work on Star Trek: Picard, with her next directorial project being an episode of the upcoming Star Wars: Skeleton Crew series, following in the footsteps of her father Ron Howard.
Getting Bugs Out of (and Into) Rural Solar
With the mounting evidence of the benefits of agrivoltaic solar arrays for crop yields, pollinator habitats, and conservation, New York State is investing $5 million in a program to promote the use of farmland for both renewable energy generation and farming, setting an example for other states in their rural solar development and challenging the argument that farmland should be solely reserved for traditional agriculture.
Jurassic Park: Blockbuster Scifi, Science Fail
Jurassic Park, released in 1993 and based on the book by Michael Crichton, used practical effects and CGI to bring dinosaurs back to life on the big screen, but with recent advancements in paleontology, it has been discovered that many of the film’s depictions of dinosaurs, particularly the theropods, are inaccurate and more akin to fictional monsters. This leads to the question of whether a remake or sequel with more scientifically accurate depictions of dinosaurs would be a good idea, or if Hollywood should continue promoting an exaggerated and monstrous depiction of these once majestic creatures.
NYT Uses AI to Make Human Artists DOA
The New York Times’ union claims that the paper is prioritizing cost savings over people and quality of work by firing human artists and replacing them with AI, despite the fact that the newspaper recently won nine gold medals for its artistry.
“Everyone’s Freaking Out About ‘Enemy Mine’ Scifi Remake?” Uh, No.
Terry Matalas, former showrunner for Star Trek: Picard and creator of 12 Monkeys, has been chosen to write a remake of the 1985 sci-fi film Enemy Mine for 20th Century Studios, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. as a human and alien who must overcome their prejudices to survive, and Matalas’s involvement brings excitement to the project after his previous successes in the genre.
Villeneuve Dune Three – The Big Bad Scifi Adaptation Drama
Denis Villeneuve plans to complete a Dune trilogy by adapting Dune Messiah as a third film, but has shown no interest in directing Children of Dune, leaving the door open for another filmmaker to continue the series with a new story arc and potentially different tone.