I love science fiction movies. Couple that with a plot about alien invasion and there’s nothing about “Invasion” that I shouldn’t love. Then there came the news of troubles from the production. First star Nicole Kidman gets hurt during an action scene, and now Fangoria is reporting that the movie has hit more trouble spots. Worst of all? The film was completed and turned into the studio in late 2005, but, um, where’s the movie? You got major stars (Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig), a major budget, and the movie is — late? Here’s Fangoria with why that might be…
Back when we reported here that Nicole Kidman had been slightly injured doing reshoots on Warner Bros. THE INVASION, we speculated that the new scenes were intended to beef up the movie’s action quotient. Now the Los Angeles Times reveals that such was indeed the case—and that they were done without the involvement of original director Oliver Hirschbiegel. According to the story, the German filmmaker, who attracted attention and won the INVASION gig based on his intense thriller THE EXPERIMENT and acclaimed Nazi drama DOWNFALL, delivered a cut of the film that failed to impress Warners execs, who brought in MATRIX creators Andy and Larry Wachowski to write new scenes and James McTeigue, who helmed the brothers’ V FOR VENDETTA script, to direct them, at a cost of $10 million.
Yikes. Should I stop waiting for this movie, then?
Yes, I think I will.
“What? Our invasion has been postponed again? Damn lazy humans.”
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