SCI FI PI

Okay spaceketeers, here's a genuine scoop!

For all the gigantic blockbuster Sci Fi and Super Hero movies raining down on us this 2008, there are a couple that haven't been given the same hullaballoo as your Iron Mans and your Dark Knights. One such film is Babylon AD, featuring the return of Vin Diesel to Sci Fi - and we've got the piping hot fresh trailer up and running in SPECTRUM.

B.A.D. (as we're going to call it, 'cause we're like that, and that's the way it is) looks to be a hyper-kinetic update on something akin to Children of Men, although there's not much to base that on in the trailer other than 'guy helps girl escape through dystopian landscape'. The plot sees hard man Toorop (Diesel) try to smuggle a girl from Russia to the US, who just happens to be carrying the secret to a genetically modified Messiah inside her. Hilarity (and carnage) ensue.



Mmmm... time for my morning cup of gravel, followed by, perhaps, yes, a pack or two of cigarettes..


Babylon AD looks to have the goodness with bigger and better (and even bigger) explosions. And spectacular CGI. And Gerard Depardieu! Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Yeoh also star.

It's been a long time between drinks for Diesel, and he looks to be bringing plenty of Riddick with him to this gig. It's also directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, the excellent French director of La Haine and The Crimson Rivers (but who also had trouble when he moved to America, with the ill-fated Halle Berry-starrer Gothika). Fingers crossed he doesn't get too much studio interference with this one. Word on the street is that it went over time and over budget, which is often a good thing for Sci Fi flicks.

We'll have more details and pics when they come to hand. It's out in Oz October 2.


Check it out in the trailers section of SPECTRUM right here!