There are so many weird , amazing thing to see in the upcoming sci - fi filmLandscape With Invisible Hand . There ’s aworld subjugated by aliens , and there arethe foreigner themselves — aliens live on with humans , with a creepy alien elbow room of communicating . And there are the very sole alien cities that swim above the less fortunate .
While you ’ll have to watch the movie , which opens August 18,to experience most of that , io9 is excited to debut a cartridge holder revealing that last thing we mentioned . It ’s a scene from early in the film where Adam ( Asante Blackk ) and his babe get nark that they ’re about to be eclipsed by a giant floating city .
As wewrote in our review , one of the coolest things about Landscape is how it ’s always challenging your expectations . A scene like this , for example , is not only unexpected and interesting , it instantly makes you want to know more .
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“ The novel is a subversive take on the alien invasion music genre , where the invaders take over the major planet through economical soft office rather than through military might , ” writer - theater director Cory Finley ( Thoroughbreds ) explain in a statement provide to io9 . “ It ’s a compound allegory that is as funny as it is dark : a kind of E.T. where the alien living in your house is more likely to sue you than to become your friend . ”
Finley contribute , “ Its vision of a slow - motion Revelation of Saint John the Divine felt deeply relatable : a earth where mundane life is submit foreign , where human labor movement is economically useless , and where romantic and family love become commodity . And if there ’s anything radical about the movie ’s approach to the genre , I hope it ’s its intimacy : the elbow room we note intergalactic mastery from the kitchen table . And the room that it rule hope not in a messianic savior but in a young artist , trying to make sense of it all , just like the rest of us . ”
He stay on . “ I focused on ground it as much as potential and make it palpate as grimy and human and as understated as it could be within this extremely bold setup . We fix out to make the most realistic execution of a totally freakish premise , ” Finley said . “ It asks a lot of very pointed , interesting interrogative . Perhaps it will make people think about these very nonobjective , highfalutin ’ concepts about the thriftiness , inequality , corporal command and colonialism . Or , you could just sit around back and be fascinated by its strangeness , or tie in by the character , the human drama and the sexual love story and loss . But I trust you will also walk out really chewing on some of the big themes . ”
Based on a novel by M.T. Anderson , Landscape With Invisible Hand was write and take by Finley . It stars Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers as kids who sample and make money by talk through one’s hat a relationship for their alien rules to follow on social medium , but then becomes much much more . Tiffany Haddish , Josh Hamilton , William Jackson Harper , and Michael Gandolfini all atomic number 27 - whizz . It opens August 18 .
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