A quickie tonight. I had a music rehearsal and I'm beat. Composer Marc Shaiman, while brilliant, is a sadist. "You Can't Stop the Beat" is an incredibly hard song to sing - there's no place to catch your breath! Or maybe I'm just getting old.
Anyway, it was way back in February of 2009 that I first blogged about Iron Sky, the Sci-Fi Comedy Adventure movie about a colony of Nazis on the dark side of the Moon who return to take over the Earth in 2018. Well, it looks like Iron Sky finally has a release date - April 4 - in Finland! No word on a U.S. date yet, but you can visit the film's official website and Demand It.
The movie features genre legend Udo Kier (Blade; Melancholia) and French beauty Julia Dietze as Moon Nazis and a cast of relative unknowns in a high-as-they-come high concept movie that I've been salivating to see for three years.
Oh, and there's an official trailer, now. Enjoy:
And here's the brilliant teaser trailer that I posted way back when:
It seems like Iron Sky is going to be either brilliantly campy fun, or a complete piece of drek. I'm hoping for the former.
Wow. It's been well over a year since I posted about Iron Sky, the movie about Nazis on the moon. At the time, all that existed was an all-digital investors' trailer, and it was just terrific. Apparently the filmmakers have secured some funding because there is some actual footage from the film in this new teaser (which is also a plea for funding).
As someone who grew up with a father who would have been perfectly content as a member of the Hitler Youth Corps (really), and who was forced to endure every godforsaken, Richard Burton narrated minute of The World at War on PBS, I despise WWII films. I can't even bring myself to watch Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List. I barely made it through Inglorious Basterds and that was a comedy, though I will admit to a fondness for all the Downfall parodies that still proliferate YouTube - there's just something very funny about Hitler freaking out over Michael Jackson's death. But then, I think Dawn of the Dead is hilarious, so what do I know?
Still, there is just something intriguing behind the whole concept of Iron Sky. We have documented evidence that Nazi scientists were working on an anti-gravity device to power aircraft that could fly below and above radar. And we know that at least a few of those scientists were recruited by the U.S. Air Force after the war (look it up), which may have resulted in the events in Roswell, NM in July of 1947. Now, please don't go thinking I'm some UFO conspiracy nutjob. I promise, I'm not. I'm just saying, is all.
Anyway, the Space Cadets over at i09 have posted the latest teaser/funds appeal for Iron Sky, featuring actual footage with real human actors:
Iron Sky stars genre icon Udo Kier (Blade II) and according to IMDb, is scheduled for 2011 release. I honestly think this movie has the potential to be hilarious, thrilling and frightening all at the same time. You can invest, demand and learn more about the film at its official website, here. And here's the original, brilliant teaser:
Of course, you may be wondering about the French connection (no, not the Gene Hackman movie) in this post's title. Well, that refers to 21 year-old Canadian director Xavier Dolan's film Les Amours Imaginaire, currently in competition at Cannes for the first ever Queer Palme award. Dolan, quite a pretty young thing himself, made a name for himself as a director with the Oscar-nominated I Killed My Mother. Les Amours... concerns itself with a bisexual love triangle and is this year's most talked-about LGBT film. Here's the stunning trailer (via):
Is it me, or is there always some bizarre connection between Nazis and gay sex? Must be Kander and Ebb's fault.
