![]() And where before the aliens landed to address the threat of nuclear war, this time it’s environmental catastrophe they’re fretting about. ![]() The previously 7ft alien is four times as large, his red eye hinting at Cylon in his ancestry, and he packs a lot more wallop than a mere heat beam. The flying saucer is now a gigantic pearl, its nacre an endlessly rushing hurricane. For a start, the Earth doesn’t so much stand still as panic and run for the hills. With the exception of the latter, they’ve undergone some changes in Scott Derrickson’s remake. There are certain things that people remember about 1951’s sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still: the ship, the robot, the endlessly-referenced phrase “Klaatu barada nikto”.
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