Keanu Reeves Brings Different Message With Him In ‘Day The Earth Stood Still’

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The day the earth stood green.
Published 3/22/2008 by Peter T Chattaway at FilmChat
... Rumours of an answer to my question reached my ears a while ago, but now, the star of the film, Keanu Reeves, has put it on the record himself, in an interview with MTV News. Simply put, whereas the first film had a sort of pacifist theme, the new film has an environmental theme: ...

Klaatu To Warn Us About.... Global Warming?
Published 3/22/2008 by Vic Holtreman at Screen Rant
... chance this movie had of being a meaningful remake of the original just went out the window for this writer. At least they're keeping the classic line "Klaatu barada nikto." If you want to read a really great book about the so-called environmental crisis, I recommend you read Michael Crichton's most excellent State of Fear. The Day the Earth Stood Still will be released December 2008. Source: MTV TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) ...

Reeves talks Day the Earth Stood Still remake
Published 3/22/2008 at Filmstalker
... but the emotionless alien. He's been talking about the changes in the new version of the film, and what they're going to be updating. The original showed a world obsessed with nuclear attack and the ongoing Cold War, visited by an alien spaceship and a humanoid who tries to understand humanity and presents a stark warning, change your ways or we will be forced to destroy your warmongering planet to save the rest of the universe. Now Keanu Reeves has been talking over at MTV Movies Blog about their new version of The Day the Earth Stood Still : “The version I ...

Re-Imagining of Day the Earth Stood Still Channeling The Matrix?
Published 3/22/2008 by Kevin Powers at FirstShowing.net
... Reeves recently spoke to MTV and explained, "The first one was borne out of the Cold War and nuclear détente. Klaatu came and was saying cease and desist with your violence. If you can't do it yourselves we're going to do it. That was the film of that day. The version I was just working on, instead of being man against man, it's more about man against nature. My Klaatu says that if the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. I'm a friend to the earth." ...

Keanu Reeves Talks Environmental Message, Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still
Published 3/22/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... Due in December, nothing substantial or even trivial has leaked from 20th Century Fox’s big budget remake of sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves, John Cleese, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. Reeves, who will next been in next month’s LAPD actioner Street Kings and plays the alien Klaatu in the holiday tent pole, talked to MTV about the enigmatic project and how it will differ from the 1951 original. While the movie’s premise will still revolve around aliens telling ...

Keanu Reeves Explains Meaning Of New ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’
Published 3/22/2008 by Dave Parrack at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
... As Keanu Reeves, who is playing Klaatu in the new version of the movie tells the MTV Movies Blog, that is the new threat which has to be starkly explained to the people of Earth: ...

Will a Green 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Remake Work'?
Published 3/24/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
I recently gave the 1951 "sci-fi" classic The Day the Earth Stood Still a watch as Keanu Reeves gave an interview with MTV discussing the direction his remake with director Scott Derrickson would take. Reeves' statement certainly is different from the original and I am not quite sure how it will all work. The 57-year-old classic centers on an alien spacecraft that lands on Earth and from it comes an alien known only as Klaatu (the role Reeves will be playing in the remake). The film was, as Reeves tells MTV, "borne out of the cold war and nuclear ...

Find Out Why Klaatu Is Visiting This Time Around [Morning Spoilers]
Published 3/24/2008 by Charlie Jane Anders at io9
... The message goes beyond environmentalism into "who we are as a species," he adds. Meanwhile, Gort will look way cooler this time around, but the "Klaatu barada nikto" line remains. [MTV, via ...

Keanu Reeves Starring In Updated Eco-Centric “Day The Earth Stood Still”
Published 3/25/2008 by michael at ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip
... addressed issues of violence, politics, and the fear of global annihilation from nuclear weapons. In the 2008 version, global warming and climate change are now the forces we should be wary of. From the article, ...

Movie Preview: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Published 7/3/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... attempts to update the older version, shifting its themes from Cold War political tension and the threat of human violence to the imminence of environmental retaliation from an abused Earth. Keanu Reeves, who plays the protagonist in this new version, explains: ...