![]() ![]() Accompanied by a punk cover of “Over the Rainbow”, the opening credits establish what’s to follow: a raucous send-up of movie tropes. In the meantime, Jang’s original Save the Green Planet! is a riotous genre mashup worth your time. Could it star DiCaprio as an alleged alien? Perhaps Cousin Greg? Two years on, we’re still waiting for an update. According to the press release, Jang will direct from a script penned by Succession writer Will Tracy, and, per Aster’s words, the updated, US-set version will “reflect the mess of the world today”. In 2020, Aster and Lars Knudsen announced that their production company, Square Peg, are collaborating with CJ Entertainment, the studio behind Parasite, to redo Save the Green Planet! for modern audiences. It did, however, inspire the South Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan to write and direct Save the Green Planet!, a 2003 comedy that may well become a 2024 comedy, should Ari Aster’s remake plans come to fruition. In 2022, the blog post no longer exists, nor does the original conspiracy theory (we now know that DiCaprio wouldn’t sleep with the women over 25). In response to Titanic, an anti-Leonardo DiCaprio website declared that the actor is actually an alien who’s attempting to conquer Earth by having sex with the planet’s female population. But the original trilogy looms majestically over everything that’s followed – probably the best sci-fi movies of all time.When Titanic was a monster hit in 1997, it spawned a star in Leonardo DiCaprio – and also a monster rumour. ![]() With prequels, sequels, TV shows, books, comics, games and more adding to the mythology, Star Wars remains one of Hollywood’s big hitters. Effectively a fantasy trilogy in sci-fi clothing, Lucas’s movies effortlessly mix the action of ’30s adventure serials with magic and a hefty dose of mythology.įour decades on, it’s impossible to think of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in isolation, each one playing a key role in Lucas’s three-part epic. ![]() No cinema franchise in history has had a bigger impact than Star Wars, a saga whose droids, starships, music and even sound effects have become part of planet Earth’s collective consciousness. ![]() Luckily, we live in the timeline where a certain galaxy far, far away exists. There’s another version of history where George Lucas managed to secure the rights to Flash Gordon, scratched his itch to make a space opera, and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia never made it out of his imagination. Ridley Scott’s original horror and James Cameron’s bug-hunt sequel have defined their respective genres to such a degree that you either follow their blueprint, or risk being accused of doing it wrong. Like the first two Terminator movies, the spectacular double-whammy of Alien and Aliens continue to make life difficult for every movie or TV show that ventures onto their turf. Sadly, the xenomorph has never again hit the heights it did in those first two classic movies. Designed by Swiss artist HR Giger, it’s an unholy alliance of teeth, acid blood and slime whose complete lack of empathy makes it one of the most chilling creatures ever to terrorize a movie screen. The other is the lethal alien that gives the saga its name. The first is Sigourney Weaver, whose Ellen Ripley evolved from the coldly efficient warrant officer of the Nostromo, into one of cinemas most iconic, relatable heroes – a particularly impressive achievement in an era when action stars were always male. The Martian (2015)īeyond their masterful approaches to suspense (Alien) and action (Aliens), the movies have two trump cards in their arsenal. But there's fantastic world-building here, and an underlying story about oppression, control and government secrets that makes for tense viewing. It's a space opera western with some goofy characters and dialogue. They smuggle aboard a psychic and her brother without realising all of the secrets they have and people they're escaping from. You don't need to have seen Firefly to enjoy Serenity (although we highly recommend you watch it if you haven't already), which is set in 2517 and follows the story of the crew of the spaceship Serenity – think of them a bit like space pirates, but good ones. Written and directed by Joss Whedon (of Buffy fame), rather than give up on the story and the characters, he wrote a film that followed on from the final episode of Firefly, and that's how Serenity was born. (Image credit: Serenity / Universal Pictures)īack in 2002, the TV series Firefly only lasted one season, despite great ratings – luckily it's become a cult classic since. ![]()
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