Apr 10 2009
Looking for old-school, thought-provoking sci-fi? Watch the trailer for Moon.
Let’s face it, very few science fiction films today are cut from the same cloth as the classics. The current offerings all seem to focus more on FX-driven eye-candy than the kind of brain-teasing “what if” scenarios that can make the genre so potent. However, director Duncan Jones — who happens to be the son of spaceman Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie — seems to be well on his way to give sci-fi a well-needed kick in the pants with Moon.
The film tells the story of by-the-books astronaut Sam Bell (played by the always impressive Sam Rockwell, in what seems to be a solo tour-de-force performance), who’s nearing the end of a three-year solitary stint on the moon, where he’s supervised the mining of resources to fuel Earth’s ever-escalating power-needs. His only companion is a computer named GERTY. Until, that is, he discovers someone else on the lunar surface, and begins a hallucinatory journey into identity and self-discovery that could bring some chilling ramifications along with it.
Watch the hauntingly terrific new trailer over at IGN.com. The preview offers elements that hint at influences from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Silent Running and Solaris: all absolutely great works from which inspiration can be drawn, in my opinion. There’s also an official website, which doesn’t have anything on it so far except a classy splash page image and an announcement that Moon will open in New York and Los Angeles in limited release on June 12.
