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tb4000
02-28-2007, 06:18 PM
Handmae and Ilion Travel to Planet One

Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/)
February 28, 2007



Handmade Films Intl. has teamed up with Madrid-based Ilion Animationhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/inline_icons/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) Studios to finance and co-produce Planet One, a $50 million CGI moviehttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/inline_icons/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) written by Shrek, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Buttheadscreenwriterhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/inline_icons/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) Joe Stillman, reports Variety.

The film will be directed by Jorge Blanco, the lead artist on videogame (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) series "Commandos."

Production is set to start in May, with the theatrical release targeted for Christmas 2008 or Easter 2009.

The film (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) is an alien invasion story about the inhabitants of Planet One, and who have two antennae and eight fingers, live in a world strangely akin to American suburbia of the 1950s, with drive-in movies, picket fences and a persistent fear of alien invasion -- which is fulfilled when a human astronaut lands in their midst.

Ilion is the theatrical production offshoot of Spain's Pyro Studios, creators of the "Commandos" videogame series. Pyro is simultaneously developing a game (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19124#) of Planet One.

The Weed Of Cri
03-01-2007, 10:42 AM
Didn't I see this story on an episode of The Twilight Zone?

Or maybe it was one a hundred other programs, books, comics, etc.

That's not saying the movie won't be good, but they've already got one strike against them when their main plot is something worn out by Edgar Rice Burroughs 70 years ago.