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Turk Does The Dance With Aliens

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (15)

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Not much is known about the upcoming Skyline — it’s directed by Greg and Colin Strause, who brought us Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem, a hard-R improvement over the miserable AvP, but still a pretty uneven film. Much like Requiem, it stars a series of lesser-known actors, including Eric Balfour, Brittany Daniel and Donald Faison.

Whoops. Sorry, we’re contractually obligated to post that video whenever Faison is mentioned.

Where was I?

Right. Skyline. It’s a contact story, which is perhaps my favorite sci-fi genre, and IMDB gives the following plot synopsis:

After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.

No word on whether or not there will be hillbillies getting anal probes.

The Brothers Strause, as they are known, have a gift for unique visuals clearly on display here. Other than Requiem, they’ve done mostly commercial work, but it’s interesting stuff (most notable is their video for A Perfect Circle’s “Weak and Powerful”) that you can find on their website.

As for the trailer, it starts out slow, and has numerous references to the great Stephen Hawking’s contact theories, and then… it picks up quite a bit. It’s relatively low-budget, but looks to be pretty high-concept and has some striking imagery. The trailer, more of a teaser, really, is far too basic to give a good feel for the film’s quality, but it’s interesting as hell. Hopefully it won’t be too ID4-ish, and have a little more brains than that. There’s certainly good atmosphere and some impressive visuals in the trailer.

Click over to Apple to see it, and let us know what you think after.









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Comments

That YouTube video is a little grainy, so I need to play that scene on my Tivo. I'll be back in a minute to read the rest of the post.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at August 11, 2010 10:31 AM

cool. i'm ever hopeful that we will get a good sci-fi movie. the trailer for this one looked fine which, of course, means nothing

Posted by: splinter at August 11, 2010 10:51 AM

From the trailer, it looks like the people are definitely alive when they get sucked off the earth. How do the "survivors" know these people are being killed when they get to the spaceship? There are so many other possibilities!

Maybe that's the aliens' version of a transporter, and they're just bringing people up to their ships to say "Hi". They may not know how scary that would seem to people on the ground.

Maybe the earth is going to be destroyed by some unknown force and the aliens are actually trying to save the human race.

Maybe the aliens know about our overpopulation problem, and are helpfully culling people from densely urban areas to try and facilitate population management.

Maybe they think humans are living on top of each other in cities because we don't know about the parts of the earth that are less densely populated, and are scooping people up in those urban areas to deposit them on other parts of the planet to spread us out.

Maybe it's a "catch and release" experiment, and they will just tag the humans and let them go later so they can track our movements like we do with fish and other wildlife.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at August 11, 2010 10:56 AM

splinter, did you see District 9 or Moon last year? It happens, just not often inside a Hollywood studio.

Posted by: RobP at August 11, 2010 11:00 AM

Yay, Turk. Made me crack a smile for what I think will be the only time today. HE IS SO DAMN TALENTED.

Posted by: figgy at August 11, 2010 11:17 AM

DO YOU SEE, CARLA????

DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE WARRIOR?!?!?!

Posted by: Kballs at August 11, 2010 11:48 AM

Never trust a big butt and a smile.

Posted by: MM at August 11, 2010 11:49 AM

Turk can dance and look ADORABLE at the same time...how is that possible?

I don't think I'd enjoy that kind of free ride to the mothership...it makes regular plane travel look appealing.

Posted by: Ducky at August 11, 2010 12:29 PM

All together now: "IT'S DRIVIN' ME OUTTA MY MINNNND, THAT'S WHY IT'S HARD FOR MEEEEE TO FIND"

Oh shit I needed that. I also need to get the first four seasons of Scrubs before it turned into a show about jumping sharks.

Posted by: Pithy"Name" at August 11, 2010 12:30 PM

I hope they take the Kardashians first, followed by Justin Bieber.

Posted by: Neo at August 11, 2010 1:17 PM

Okay, finally saw the trailer. Here's what happened:

First, I was like, August 28th? That's the same day as the Dallas Comic Con. Then I saw it said 2009 and I was all, Oh. Then I heard all that Stephen Hawking gibberish and thought, Hmm... interesting, these guys watched his Discovery special, too! But then there were just a buncha blue lights and stuff that did nothing and I was, like, you know, That's it?! But then, oh then, there was the people vacuum with all the screaming and flailing like a reverse 9-11, and I said, Well. That's certainly a unique choice.

But where's Donald, damn it?!

Posted by: RobP at August 11, 2010 2:30 PM

One of my favorite lines,
"DO YOU SEE, CARLA????
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE WARRIOR?!?!?!
Posted by: Kballs at August 11, 2010 11:48 AM"

I even crack a smile just reading it, much less watching the clip.

Posted by: e at August 11, 2010 2:35 PM

Skyline trailer looks beautiful... and because I'll watch anything that looks good, please count me in.

Posted by: SB at August 11, 2010 4:02 PM

But then, oh then, there was the people vacuum with all the screaming and flailing like a reverse 9-11, and I said, Well. That's certainly a unique choice.

Totally.
Words right out of my mouth.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at August 11, 2010 7:36 PM

Stephen Hawking is recently in the news for saying (if I properly understand him) that the universe could have originated without the assistance of God. Given his own lamentable condition, I can't help wondering if he feels he could similarly get by without the assistance of God himself...

Posted by: Tine at September 4, 2010 6:24 AM