Full Trailer For Sci-Fi Thriller Pandorum
Ever had one of those days where everything you read seems to be about things going bump in the eternal night of deep, dark space? I’m having one right now. Not only is there anAlienremake-reboot-rehash on the cards, asreported by Peter, there’s a freshly minted full trailer forChristian Alvart’sPandorumdoing the rounds. The film starsBen FosterandDennis Quaidas two crew members waking from suspended animation on a deep space jaunt to face… a creepy situation that I won’t spoil right here. you’re able to see the trailer below the break and decide for yourself if it’s morePitch BlackthanAlien, or vice versa.
Actually, there’s even a whiff ofEvent Horizonrising off of the thing, I think you’ll agree, which might not be surprising as Paul W. S Anderson and Jeremy Bolt are amongst the producers. Or how aboutDark Star?
Not knowing the full storyline, I can’t be sure but there seem to be a great deal of plot reveals spoiled by this trailer – as is so often the way, at least for the last five or six years – so proceed with all due caution.
Pandorumwill be released in the US in September, thereby trumping Alvart’s previously produced filmCase 39.That one, at least for the moment, only seems set for a big screen release outside of North America. Paramount’sofficialCase 39sitelists a release date for just about every country in the world, though the US and Canada are conspicuous by their absence. I had to check to see if the UK date fell on a Friday or a Monday because I wanted to be sure these weren’t direct to DVD dates, and it seems not.
Most people’s hopes forPandorum, or indeedCase 39, rest on Alvart’sAntibodies. That was the film that brought him to the attention of festival programmers, worldwide genre fans and the big money production companies.Antibodieswas a serial killer film with a sci-fi or fantasy twist, and it seems this is the area Alvart is dedicated to claiming: thrillers with a high-concept, fantastical bent.
Interestingly, the film’s tagline is “Don’t fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.” That points in a slightly different direction than the trailer, I think. Perhaps an explanation lies in the fact that when Alvart was shown thePandorumscript, it was somewhat different to the one he took into production. He’d been working on a slightly similar sci-fi screenplay himself, calledNo Where, and the two ended up becoming melded. From what I can discern, the tagline seems to hit theNo Wherenotes, the trailer the originalPandorumones.
