The Day the Earth stopped (movie, 2008)

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The Day the Earth Stood Still ( The Day the Earth Stood Still ) is a movie of science fiction US , remake of the eponymous film of 1951 , directed by Scott Derrickson on David Scarpa’s screenplay based on the original screenplay Edmund H. North, with Keanu Reeves , Jennifer Connelly , Kathy Bates and Jon Hamm . The film came out onin Belgium and France , and thein the United States .

Synopsis

A kind of sphere lands on Earth . Klaatu, an extraterrestrial human being (born of a chrysalis ) who wants to transmit a message to humanity while strange phenomena are emerging.

Technical sheet

  • Title: The day the Earth stopped
  • Original title: The Day Stood Still
  • Artistic direction: Don MacAulay
  • Sets: David Brisbin
  • Costume: Tish Monaghan
  • Photography: David Tattersall
  • Editing: Wayne Wahrman
  • Music: Tyler Bates
  • Production: Paul Harris Boardman, Gregory Goodman, Erwin Stoff
  • Distribution: Twentieth Century Fox
  • Budget: $ 80 million
  • Country of Origin: United States , Canada
  • Language: English
  • Format: Color – Dolby Digital DTS SDDS – Scope Version 2.35: 1 , 35 mm – IMAX Version
  • Genre: science fiction
  • Duration: 103 minutes
  • Release date 1 :

Distribution

Director Scott Derrickson and actor Keanu Reeves , January 2009

  • Keanu Reeves (VF: Xavier Fagnon ) : Klaatu
  • Jennifer Connelly (VF: Veronique Desmadryl) : Helen Benson
  • Kathy Bates (VF: Denise Metmer ) : Regina Jackson, Secretary of Defense of the United States
  • Jon Hamm (VF: Constantin Pappas ) : Dr. Granier
  • John Cleese (VF: Jean-Luc Kayser ) : Professor Barnhardt
  • Jaden Smith (VF: Leo Caruso ) : Jacob
  • Aaron Douglas : Sergeant Winter
  • Alisen Down : The woman at the laptop
  • Mousa Kraish  ( VF: Omar Yami ) : Yusef
  • JC MacKenzie  ( VF: Renaud Marx ) : Grossman
  • Juan Riedinger  (it) : William
  • Sunita Prasad : Rouhani
  • Brandon T. Jackson : a technician
  • James Hong ( Jim Adhi-Limas ) : Mr. Wu
  • Roger R. Cross (VF: Thierry Desroses ) : General Quinn
  • Kyle Chandler (VF: Emmanuel Curtil ) : John Driscoll
  • Robert Knepper (VF: Patrick Osmond) : A Colonel
  • Serge Houde : A scientist
  • Heather Doerksen : Regina
  • Hiro Kanagawa (VF: Sylvain Clément ) : Dr. Ikegawa
  • Michael Hogan : A general

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Box office

Country Box Office Number of weeks TLT 2 classification Dated
Box office World $ 430,238,223 6 21/01/2009
Box office United States and Canada $ 330,238,770 6 21/01/2009
Box office France 1,138,019 entries 6 21/12/2008

Around the film

  • Interview with Keanu Reeves 3 :
    – To Us, City Magazine : “For you, is this remake also a political film? ”
    – Keanu Reeves :” There are several levels and one of these levels is obviously political and social. What is certain is that American patriotism is a very powerful feeling. When America is confronted with something it does not know, it responds with violence and firmness. But that implies consequences, and what happens in the film shows that this method of “pull first, then discuss” does not work. “
  • Images of real political figures, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel , Pope Benedict XVI or Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are included in the film.
  • In two scenes from the film, Jaden Smith refers to two films in which his father Will Smith played , the first when he says that the latter “would have fought the aliens” as in Independence Day and the second when he finds himself alone with Jennifer Connelly who remember I am a legend .

External links

  • ( The ) The day the Earth stopped [ archive ] on the Internet Movie Database
  • The day the Earth stopped [ archive ] on Allociné
  • Official website  [ archive ]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ (en) The day the Earth stopped [ archive ] on the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ All times – All Time
  3. ↑ Interview by Fabien Menguy, excerpt from the interview published in To us, the city magazine , No. 59 the .

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