Source:
ScreenRant.com
Directed and produced by Fedor Bondarchuk (
Stalingrad), the film aims to tell a familiar story of aliens making first contact with Earth, which brings about a whole host of emotions from the people who are curious and frightened by the strange visitors.
The first trailer for the film was released not long ago, and it provided a few key yet fleeting glimpses of the aliens who emerge from the spacecraft that crash lands in Moscow. The second trailer introduced audiences to one of the film’s main human protagonists, as played by Alexander Petrov, but it didn’t really reveal more than an extra second or two of the aliens in action. This third trailer, however, is no longer playing coy.
It’s certainly fascinating to get a glimpse of a non-English film venturing into the big budget “alien invasion” arena that has been almost the exclusive domain of Hollywood and, more broadly, English-speaking cinema, for such a long time. Director Bondarchuk does seem to be the right candidate to lead the charge. Interestingly, his previous film,
Stalingrad, was the
first Russian language film to be shot in IMAX format and enjoy an IMAX theatrical release, so this isn’t his first attempt at large scale, big-budget storytelling.
