I’m submitting my
complete file for the print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead”
early next week.
Hopefully it will be available for purchase by Wednesday. I’ll post
an update for the release on my Facebook page and definitely here
next week. As busy as a weekend it has been, I’m squeesing in some
time for a summer sci fi flick—Valerian and the City of a
Thousand Planets.
Valerian
I’m always looking
for the Star Wars-type blockbuster each summer and it looks
like Valerian could be it. In fact, according to TheHollywood Reporter, it even borrows from Star Wars. However, according to the bulk of critics, it hasn’t been much of
a blockbuster on this weekend of its release. But it’s definitely blockbuster-like yet with its own style and
vision from its director, Luc Besson, who also directed The Fifth
Element back in the ‘90s and look what became of that. It became a cult
classic, and hopefully this movie will too. The reason I say that is
because the majority of our nation’s population seems to only want
to see what mass consumerism demands and so what the majority of
people are willing to pay money for. They say “Screw the director’s
vision!” This is how Hollywood works, unfortunately. Because of
that, a good many films of unique style and vision have been turned
down.
Europe’s movie
industry has traditionally not been like that, this movie having
grown out of France like the comic book series it originates from.
Surprise! Not even a European surreal style film can get away from
the comic book movie craze of the past 10 years. But I’ll see this
new release on the big screen over a Guardians of
the Galaxy new release anytime. Yet, hopefully it will stand well
on its own while staying faithful to the comic. Not that I’ve read
the comic. But if the movie’s really good I may pick up an
anthology of reprints of the comic series and read it. If it’s
really bad, then I’ll still read the comic because it will probably
be better than the movie. Here’s a good article that compares the
two.
Blade Runner 2049 Promos
San Diego Comic Con
(which I have not attended any yet) has been doing a lot of promotion
of the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, which continues the
adventures of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and a new generation’s
hero, K (Ryan Gosling), who takes the spotlight in this film. The
movie is a sequel to the 1982 original that’s based on Philip K.
Dick’s book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I read
two interesting articles on the con’s promotion of the movie: one
about a VR/ live-performance combo tease,
the other about a timeline graph that shows the events between thefirst film and the upcoming one (which is due to release in October). Check them out!
That’s what’s
happening this weekend. Next weekend will be two cons which I may or
may not go to both but will attend one of them for sure. I’ll talk
about that more then along with other topics in sci fi/fantasy
reading, writing and viewing.
Do you think
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is
destined to become a cult classic like The Fifth Element?
Do
you think the sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner
will be good even though it won’t be based directly on Philip K.
Dick’s novel (since the novel itself never had a sequel)?
Until next time . .
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