{"id":18548,"date":"2015-03-24T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=18548"},"modified":"2015-07-20T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:18:00","slug":"sci-fi-short-leviathan-officially-grabbed-hollywoods-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/sci-fi-short-leviathan-officially-grabbed-hollywoods-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Short The Leviathan Has Officially Grabbed Hollywood&#8217;s Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Last week, director Ruairi Robinson posted up a three-and-a-half minute short debuting his idea for a new film, dubbed\u00a0<em>The Leviathan<\/em>. It&#8217;s about future, near-suicidal low-class workers trying to mine a super-important material out of a flying alien whale. Naturally, the internet loudly applauded. You&#8217;ll see from the video itself that my portrayal of the tone is so far off the mark, it&#8217;s almost like I wanted to set you up to be surprised.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-45NTlgp-o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It seems the vociferous clapping sound made its way all the way to Hollywood, enticing the likes of Neil Blomkamp (director of\u00a0<em>District 9\u00a0<\/em>and other less important movies) and Simon Kinberg (writer and producer for some X-Men films and connected to the new Star Wars stuff out of Disney) as producers for a full-length film, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/03\/simon-kinberg-neil-blomkamp-the-leviathan-ruairi-robinson-star-wars-the-force-awakens-x-men-fox-1201396962\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Deadline<\/a>. There was apparently a lot of interest shown to Robinson from many producers since the short&#8217;s release online, but Kinberg managed to seal the deal pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson is still a fledgling duck in the world of giant budgets and overwrought expectation. His only major full-length release has been\u00a0<em>The Last Days on Mars<\/em> with Liev Schreiber. Don&#8217;t worry if you haven&#8217;t heard of it. Today, though, Robinson seems pretty pleased with how it all turned out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Here is some news. Could not hope for a better team to do this movie with. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BAtWIslNl5\">https:\/\/t.co\/BAtWIslNl5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ruairi Robinson (@RuairiRobinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuairiRobinson\/status\/580017702095339521\">March 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blomkamp, who has struggled to make a splash since his tidal wave of a film debut,\u00a0<em>District 9<\/em>, followed a similar path to relevancy, producing science-fiction shorts until getting noticed by the big guys. Perhaps he has some apt advice for Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Blomkamp\u00a0might have some ideas on how to ground such a generalized, yet impressively realized, idea in\u00a0<em>The Leviathan.\u00a0<\/em>That or he&#8217;s just\u00a0going to class up the joint with some sweet Sigourney Weaver name drops. Blomkamp is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/properly-react-confirmed-neil-blomkamp-alien-movie\/\">direct the next\u00a0<em>Alien\u00a0<\/em>movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for what\u00a0<em>The Leviathan\u00a0<\/em>might end up being with a full script and an entire community of producers circling around it like hyenas at a petting zoo &#8211; I&#8217;d be happy with an actual\u00a0<em>Dune\u00a0<\/em>movie after all this time. And no,\u00a0<em>Jodorowsky&#8217;s Dune<\/em>, the documentary about a failed\u00a0<em>Dune\u00a0<\/em>movie, does not count. Neither does that\u00a0<em>Dune\u00a0<\/em>movie David Lynch\u00a0made that one time.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, how are we still dancing around this, in this day of reboots, three-prequels and franchises that are sequels to other franchises?\u00a0<em>Dune <\/em>has\u00a0the density of about ten movies and the location variety to wet Peter Jackson&#8217;s tongue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dune-cat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-18552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dune-cat.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dune Cat\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dune-cat.jpg 480w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dune-cat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dune-cat-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, director Ruairi Robinson posted up a three-and-a-half minute short debuting his idea for a new film, dubbed\u00a0The Leviathan. It&#8217;s about future, near-suicidal low-class workers trying to mine a super-important material out of a flying alien whale. Naturally, the internet loudly applauded. You&#8217;ll see from the video itself that my portrayal of the tone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":18549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1251,1274],"class_list":["post-18548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-neil-blomkamp","tag-the-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18548"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18551,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions\/18551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}