Dave Bautista Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Universe’s Most Wanted’ Acquired by STX
Brad Peyton-directed film seeks to begin production in Melbourne, Australia in JulyBrian Welk | April 14, 2021 @ 10:00 AM
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STXfilms has acquired the rights to “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a sci-fi adventure starring Dave Bautista and directed by “Rampage” filmmaker Brad Peyton.
The film comes from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance and is currently in pre-production. Filming hopes to begin in Melbourne, Australia in July. STX will release “Universe’s Most Wanted” in the U.S., the UK and India.
In “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world. F. Scot
STXfilms Reunites With Dave Bautista To Track Down Universe s Most Wanted In Brad Peyton Sci-Fi Adventure For US, UK, And India Release
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Beyond Skyline, the over-the-top sequel to 2010’s “worldwide alien invasion on a budget” movie
Skyline. The first film in the franchise set so much of the story in a single high-rise condo, where a few fearful survivors hole up to escape the aliens, that it’s a full-on shock when directors Greg and Colin Strause finally reveal that they have bigger ambitions than a bottle-episode film. The sequel, produced by the Strauses with Liam O’Donnell taking over as director, took the story halfway around the world, and morphed it into a joyously trashy martial-arts pulp saga.
The series’ biggest hallmark has always been its outrageousness: the first film introduces grotesque alien technology that rips human brains out of their bodies, brainwashes them, and uses them to run huge, heavily armored drone warriors called Pilots. The sequel sees an infant infected with alien DNA and growing into a child with powers over the aliens just in time to help the survivors fight off newer
“Skylines” wants what Michael Bay, Paul W.S. Anderson, and other directors of their caliber have. To create B-movie magic, because the “B” now stands for “blockbuster,” with the VFX-heavy spectacle of fighting aliens and flying ships through space. Every bit of this movie yearns to be on the same proverbial shelf as something like Bay “Transformers” or Anderson’s “Resident Evil” films, but it doesn’t do enough to carve out its own space. An alien planet shouldn’t look this rote; same goes with the life-or-death action that happens on it.
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But what director Liam O’Donnell has that those genre juggernauts don’t is a bigger sense of humor. Specifically, outtakes after the credits. For all the strait-laced generic sci-fi plotting that unfolds in the previous 105 minutes of “Skylines,” it’s the images of costumes falling apart, green-screen sets, and miffed fight choreography at the end that show how to best receive this movie: a can-do
Movie Review – Skylines (2020)
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Starring Lindsey Morgan, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig, James Cosmo, Daniel Bernhardt, Yayan Ruhian, and Jonathan Howard.
SYNOPSIS:
When a virus threatens to turn the now Earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what’s left of humanity.
Who could ever have anticipated that 2010’s modestly successful – albeit critically panned – sci-fi action film
Skylines would get not one but
two belated sequels? In 2017,
Beyond Skyline arrived with few expectations, and while hardly a truly
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