yay another SF story about genetic monarchs

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Jupiter Ascending - Official Trailer 2 [HD]" (Watch on YouTube)

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[oh6]

Needs more bees. At least, they look like bees. Not turning on the sound to make sure.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

ELVES! IN SPACE!

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

I just misread your comment as "Elvises in space!" Which would be a rather different movie, and probably a more entertaining one.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, there's a lot you can do with "Elvises in space!" Parody and non-parody.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

Space Elvis, you say?
It has been done...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/zak-mckracken-and-the-alien-mindbenders/screenshots/gameShotId,267757/

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Or Walter Jon Williams' Drake Maijstral trilogy, in which our alien conqueror's love Elvis.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks exciting. *yawn*

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

oooh, Sean Bean...

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

My £5 says he dies in the last half-hour of the film (excluding the credits)...

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

How badass is Sharpe? Well, put it this way: he survived being played by Sean Bean!

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I have asked this question many times, and now I know, Sean Bean does survive to the end of at least one movie.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

please, let him live til the credits..

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

On some article or other I read he's playing a "Han-Solo-like" character in this, to which I can only respond, TAKE MY MONEY.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

on the really bad days, I take out my copy of Sharpes Rifles and play the scene where he saves Wellington.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I suspect it won't be good, but the aesthetic contrast between teal-and-orange SF and small town Americana is intriguing.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

So. Much. Teal and orange.

[wakboth.livejournal.com]

Don't care. It still looks cool, and Wachowskis doing big-budget space opera definitely has my interest.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

But they could instead be making sequels to The Matrix. You know, the movie that called out for a sequel but which never actually happened?

[wakboth.livejournal.com]

Actually, I rather liked Matrix Reloaded, as it shook up the setting and introduced new and interesting elements. Unfortunately, the third movie failed to follow up properly, falling flat and pulling the second one down with it.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

It seemed kind of like one of Catherine Asaro's novels, but as I kept watching, that hope drained away.

[matt-ruff.livejournal.com]

Best Hillary Clinton campaign ad ever.

[tceisele.livejournal.com]

It's just that "Genetically Determined Chosen One" is so convenient! It lets you combine your viewpoint character with your MacGuffin, without actually requiring your viewpoint character to have ever actually done anything notable in their life.

We need a lot more thought to be put into developing a better class of MacGuffins.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

I want a story in which there are multiple genetically determined chosen ones, so they are constantly fighting each other to rule, while we go on happily ignoring them.

The real story is in the hapless folk caught up in their collateral damage, of course.

I'm sure they're out there, so suggestions are welcome.

[seawasp]

The Chronicles of Amber?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what sprang immediately to my mind...

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

A Clash of Kings

"I'm the son of the king!"
"No you're not, and I'm his brother!"
"Screw both of you! I'm the choice of the lords and knights of the realm!"
"Screw all of you! My lords say we're leaving!"
"Screw all of you! My daddy was the true king, and me and my dragons will show you as soon as I can find your continent!"

[wakboth.livejournal.com]

From the trailer, I got the idea that the apparent bad guy is another GDCO, who's hunting Jupiter because she could contest his status, and the good guys are bringing Jupiter in because she's personally experienced what it's like to live at the bottom and thus would make for a ruler sympathetic with the ordinary people while simultaneously being acceptable to the GDPowers That Are.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Highlander?

[rosefox]

I just read a story like this, but it's in a heavily embargoed publication that I'm not allowed to talk about until it comes out on April 29.

If you see a big book announcement on April 29, though, it's that one.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

It's the ideal Mary Sue.

[cyprinella]

I am shallowly interested in the main(?) male character wearing eyeliner.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Channing Tatum. One of the few leading men I actually find legitimately charming, so I'm excited about this.

[ccamfield.livejournal.com]

WIth only the male characters doing the fighting? Really?

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Didn't we already see this? "Save the girl, save the world?"

[fengi.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about that, but I'm pretty sure they've done "corporate drone turns out to be The One" before. Except this time it's a girl, so she's a cleaner and there's fairytale overtones. I will grant that Mila is kind of the Keanu of actresses - at least on the big screen (she seems to have turned to wood after That 70s Show Ended).

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Botox?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

While I realize the trailer doesn't have to make sense or relate to the actual movie very much, that went from potentially interesting to gah very quickly, and the more I think about it the more gah arises.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Will this be available on Vita and 3DS? ...it's not a series of cutscene excerpts?

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

Cinderella vs. Ming the Merciless?

[seawasp]

If it's Ming as played by Max Von Sydow I'm so there. Because Max Von Sydow.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

It sure looks purdy!

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Thank god there was stirring choral music, or I wouldn't have known to take it seriously.