Bosco685 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Alien Nation Is Getting A Remake From This Fantastic Director Everything old is new again, and that includes science fiction parables about racism that we haven't seen in a quarter century. Alien Nation is coming back to the big screen, but they've found the perfect, if not necessarily obvious, director. The man at the helm will be Jeff Nichols, whose next movie will also deal with racism, but in a more overt sense. Jeff Nichols will premiere Loving at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, where our own Sean O'Connell is currently checking out everything that's new and exciting. That film deals with the couple whose marriage led to the Supreme Court decision which made laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional. While that story is a bit more dramatic, it's certainly got some thematic similarities with 1988s Alien Nation. Alien Nation originally starred Mandy Patinkin and James Caan as police officers in a future where an alien race had come to earth and had integrated among humanity. Patinkin played the alien, while Caan played a human cop with some serious prejudices against his new partner. According to Deadline, Jeff Nichols will write as well as direct the new film. Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway were hired previously to pen a -script for an Alien Nation remake. It appears that whatever work they have done is being discarded and the movie is starting from scratch. I really liked the original movie and TV show. I hope they don't mess this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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