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Post by claired80 on Sept 1, 2009 10:02:00 GMT -5
Thank you Raffy ;D!! They do look cute! But I have a hard time with Drew Roy as Tom's son  . So Tom was a teenage dad? Drew Roy looks like his actual 23 on this picture. |
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Post by Raffy on Sept 1, 2009 13:27:15 GMT -5
me too. Probably it explains why he has a beard which makes him look older I think so. |
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Post by Raffy on Mar 20, 2010 13:48:28 GMT -5
I found a review of the pilot's script. I think I can post here some spoiler free parts...
Exclusive: Script review of Steven Spielberg's untitled alien invasion TV pilot
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Thursday, March 18, 2010
In May 2009 the news broke that Steven Spielberg was collaborating again with the screenwriter of Saving Private Ryan, Robert Rodat, on a television pilot for TNT. As is the case for most of the concepts that attract Spielberg, this one was high concept: what would life be like for a group of survivors-turned-fighters in the aftermath of an all-out alien invasion of Earth? Now, nearly one year after the first announcement of this project Coming Attractions gives you the first look at what this still-untitled alien invasion pilot is shaping up to look like.
Rodat was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for his work on Saving Private Ryan. He also penned the Mel Gibson picture The Patriot which had one very intense action moment that played heavily on human emotion, specifically Gibson's character earning his vengeance against British troops for killing his young son. Needless to say the idea of Rodat co-developing (with Spielberg) and writing the alien invasion pilot script is d**n interesting because of the way the writer uses war and battle to uncover raw human emotions. And let's face it, if there's a sub-genre that could do with adding some depth to its worn-out concept it's the idea of Earth being attacked by hostile E.T.s. For every War of the Worlds (the H.G. Wells' original) that manages to balance the horror of apocalyptic destruction wrought by aliens there's ten Independence Day movies and TV shows where humans defeat their cosmic enemies and share stogies with each other by the end of the film.
After reading the pilot script for the proposed TV series, now I know that Rodat's script won't be another ID4. If you want the feel of his world in a nutshell, imagine the post-apocalyptic devastated future scenes from the original Terminator film as the setting. The Independence Day motherships came and destroyed cities, switched off everything electronic and killed millions in their first wave of attack. When Rodat's screenplay starts, all that went down seven months ago. At least Kyle Reese and his war weary future survivors had John Connor's resistence going for them in their war with the machines. In Rodat's vision of the day after Independence Day, civilization is on the brink of collapse and there doesn't appear to be any time paradox spawned messiah or Will Smith/Jeff Goldblum heroics on the horizon. Humanity's future is being written in blood and there aren't too many pages left in the story.
It's hard to classify Tom Mason, the character that ER's Noah Wylie is slated to play, as the story's hero. He's certainly the pilot's protagonist, its central character, but every character in Rodat's tight, 45-page pilot can be called a hero to some degree because they're fighting for their lives. When you meet Tom in the script, he's like everyone else encountered in the pilot; functioning moment to moment, resisting as hard as he can against the alien invaders, fighting a guerilla war with what little weaponry he has available. Counting the dead. Running for his life when enemy reinforcements arrive. Reporting back to his superiors what the losses were in every encounter with the enemy. Using minimal words because it's an effort to just survive, stay alive, find food and stay sane when the world you and your children lived in a year ago is totally gone.
[.....SPOILERS....]
After reading how badly the aftermath of an alien invasion story can be told it's so good to see how a different writer can take the exact same concept and tell it in a gripping, interesting and much better way. This pilot episode, titled "Live and Learn", is hard and dramatic and has good moments of action and tension. This introduction of Tom, Anne, the other survivors and their world opens the door for a lot of potential storylines for Rodat, Spielberg and theshow's creative team to chase down. By deconstructing a worn-out sci-fi premise and by treating it with deadly seriousness, Rodat instills freshness into the concept. Along with AMC's Walking Dead pilot, TNT's untitled alien invasion show left me wanting more.
A year from now television may be the place to see the best genre entertainment. Bring it on TNT. Let's get this show in the can and scheduled for broadcast.
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Post by Raffy on Apr 27, 2010 11:44:21 GMT -5
According to New York Magazine article there's another character that we don't know until now.
Weaver (?): The hard-ass leader of Tom's group who has lost his own family
I find really funny that Noah's carachter has a boss called Weaver AGAIN! ;D
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Post by claired80 on May 5, 2010 5:30:53 GMT -5
Weaver! LOL! ;D Did Noah have his say in characters' names? Could it be the character played by Will Patton?  (still not listed on imdb if I'm not mistaken... ) |
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. So Tom was a teenage dad? Drew Roy looks like his actual 23 on this picture.
