The TV Addict 

The trend at this year’s San Diego Comic Con seems to have been for studios to release two posters at the same time. All things come in twos I guess, an apt expression to use perhaps given that these two posters are for the remake of the excellent 1951 film of the same name. Based on the recent trailer, it actually looks like a remake that might not entirely suck. If anything it’s a stroke of casting brilliance to cast Keanu Reeves as an emotionless, expressionless alien.It does look like the remake ups the stakes a little from the original, but that’s fine. These two posters certainly convey that threat too, especially in the one where Gort (the robot looking thing) appears to be standing over earth itself. Consider me moderately intrigued.

P.S.: On a visually nerdy note, I kind of dig - though I’m not sure it’s intentional - that in many ways the posters are visual inversions of each other.

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