Nytro — Dreaming

This is looking SO dope.

But speaking of Quaid & promo’s, he’s currently mixing down the first couple of tracks from his forthcoming Metropolis project: ‘Adonis Blu’ & ‘Futura (love theme from Metropolis)’ both to be released digitally as part of a Metropolis promo package.

There may even be a short film to go with it…we’ll keep u posted.

And like Buck much of the soundtrack is predominately orchestral with an obligatory spacey disco track thrown in. But digging a little deeper I found this gem which is a more noodly proggy synth piece, hence bringing it back ever-so-tangentially into the fusion sphere for today’s FF post.

Overall, though there are some electronic moments in the score, particularly in the SFX, it’s hardly noteworthy when compared to the out-there futuristic vistas of ‘Logan’s Run’ or the analogue madness of Gill Mellé’s ‘The Andromeda Strain’.

But to my mind this track at least feels like something you should be hearing on a Cylon Base ship, even if in the rest of this future the music is fairly predictable.

Stu Phillips — Galactic Rock

(pic via kiel bryant’s insanely good flickr stream)

Aliens 3 seems to be one of those films that always causes ructions (sci-fights, maybe?). I still remember the crushing disappointment of seeing it at the 11 am showing on the day it  came out. It was so, so poor. In recent years (especially since the release of the alternative Fincher cut) I’ve often heard it described as a ‘hidden gem’ or a film that’s ripe for re-evaluation. Maybe. But I’m not so sure.

What is clear is that the behind the scenes struggles were the root cause of the films (many) failings. Although vaguely aware of the pre-production pain, I hadn’t realised quite how much till reading this amazingly thorough overview.

The image above is taken from the concept art from one of the scrapped script revisions. In an early version the monastic/futuristic medieval themes which eventually turn up in Fincher’s version are explored in more depth. (More here)

Some people claim this is the long, lost classic Alien3 we should of had. Again, I’m not so sure. I think the problem for me with Alien 3 revisionism in general is it’s hard to get past what  a body blow the film ended up being to the franchise. To think of how it could have been just makes it even worse.

My view is echoed in the conclusions of the Aliens 3 overview link from earlier in the post. The films should have followed the plot  lines of the Dark Horse graphic novel.

“Alien: Book One” would have been a helluva film.

Simon Pèrin — Eternity

Richard Malot — Quiet

Gareth Edwards‘ Monsters sounds amazing.

Super low budget and selling itself as ‘Lost In Translation meets War of the Worlds, this could be the holy grail: a dark edgy scifi film you can take the mrs to.

Sign me up.

Click Here to watch the short in High Definition on YouTube.

This is dope. Put together by Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch, this self funded short is apparently a teaser for a full length feature that Rinsch has in mind.  Jokingly described as a mix between 2001, Bladerunner and Doctor Zhivago with a bit of Bourne-style action (I’m not laughing, I’m trying too busy re-arranging my trousers) this could be one to watch out for.

You get the feeling that the District 9 / Children of Men style of ‘realistic’ Sci-fi could bare some incredible leaps for this kind of movie.

Read more  (including some sick concept art) at /Film