Andromeda Strain

New Andromeda Strain Will Be More Widescreen And Splodey Than Original

The Ridley Scott/Tony Scott-produced Andromeda Strain miniseries got a new trailer and an airdate: Memorial Day weekend. The new trailer includes a few snippets of cast interviews, but also shows more of the tense showdown between Benjamin Bratt and Andre Braugher over the impossibility of stopping the fast-mutating alien virus and saving the human race. And you glimpse more of the crazy over-the-top action sequences, including a fighter jet pilot getting struck down. I only hope that weird "ribbit" sound effect isn't in the actual movie. [Andromeda Strain]

11:00 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,637 views, 31 comments

Latest by fistrodisco: "The whole point of the friggin book and original movie was that the nerds win. They figure it out, they stay alive and it doesn't get out" Curiously enough, Crichton commented somewhere that the point of the novel and the first more »

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Alien Plague Eats Town, In Ridley Scott's "Andromeda"

The original classic of plague lit, Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain, is getting a classy remake as an A&E miniseries. Produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, the new Andromeda looks like it'll bring all of the intensity, and grit of the novel, but with more of an action-movie spin. Best of all, it'll sacrifice none of the original's intelligence and attention to detail. Watch the trailer and then click through to learn more, including spoilers for those of you who somehow missed the classic original. More »

6:30 AM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,007 views, 31 comments

Latest by fistrodisco: That novel was far less screenplayish than his later works. Also, he did that funny thing of ending it by putting pages upon pages of false science publication references :D. The miniseries was formulaic utterly predictable boringness up to the final more »

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