Last week one of the top stories here on B-D was the release of the trailer for 20th Century Fox's The Day the Earth Stood Still trailer, which you can watch by clicking here. The teaser left us with many questions about the remake of the classic 1950s movie, which follows an alien that lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. Over the weekend MTV got in touch with director Scott Derrickson, who explains many of the secrets of the film, read on for a bit.
The last shot in the trailer is a hero shot, although strangely not of Keanu Reeve’s character Klaatu, but of his trusty robot Gort. The look of the character deliberately recalls his look in the 1951 original.
“It was intentional,” Derrickson tells MTV. “I certainly took a lot of time to explore other possibilities. It wasn’t just a foregone conclusion in my mind that we would be sticking to the original. I tried looking at a lot of different possibilities, worked on a lot of different ideas with artists and just always a nagging sense that there was something right about the way the original, that there was something about this alien entity choosing a human form or being in a human form that had value even by modern standards, not by 1950 standards. I also am such a fan of the original film. You have to also just have some respect for Gort. Gort is Gort. There’s no question what we designed pays homage to the original.”
Take a trip over to MTV for the full interview and check out EARTH in theaters December 12th.
A movie like this is a much better candidate for a remake than something as recent as Robocop. As long as it stays faithful to the original it's a great idea and I'm looking forward to it. Don't hate this idea just because you hate remakes. Besides, the original is really old, it's not a sacrilege to develop a modern version of this great story.
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