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Barry Sonnenfeld & Grant Morrison have a trailer for their DINOSAURS VS ALIENS project!
Hey folks, Harry here... Just saw this and thought it looks fun. Apparently Barry Sonnenfeld thought it'd be cool if Aliens wanted to take over the Earth, but like 230 Million years ago - and the Dinosaurs had to defend Earth. Well, when you take that notion and you give it to Grant Morrison to play with... you get something damn interesting. That's for certain. Here, take a look, can you geek on this? Cuz I totally can.
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Don't need anything else, I'm in.
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July 6, 2012, 2:47 p.m. CST
This will be a massive financial critical/financial success like Cowboys and Aliens!!! Go Barry Go!!!!
by Samuel Fulmer
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Starring Tim Allen and Woody Allen
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cuz then i wouldn't know who to cheer for....
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and the aliens are us...
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July 6, 2012, 2:53 p.m. CST
Took me four tries to get it to play the video after the commercial.
by lochkray
Now I want to buy an EpiPen. Huh...power of advertising.
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Would be purr-fect for Grant.
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July 6, 2012, 2:55 p.m. CST
But will it be amazing? I can be amazing! Its almost amazing!
by Windowlicker74
Or will it just be another sonnenfeld turd?
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July 6, 2012, 2:57 p.m. CST
Isn't this just a motion comic? I thought it was going to be a live-action movie?
by cgih8r
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July 6, 2012, 2:59 p.m. CST
was mildly excited until i realized it was a trailer for a comic book
by la te ral us
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Sonnenfeld sounds "like he has a cleft asshole." What a douchebag. Nice pink shirt there, Liberace. My gay friends are embarrassed for you. Oh and fuck you Yahoo movies for crashing my browser twice before your piece of shit trailer would play. Flash has been around for years and you still can't figure it out you dumb bitches. Get a CDN and some proper scripting. Cunts.
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no makeup, no mo-cap, no suit, just daniel craig.
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July 6, 2012, 3:09 p.m. CST
if grant pulls this off without going the disneyfied anthropomorphic route
by JAMF
and does the whole thing with no dialogue whatsover, just gestures, that would be amazing.
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July 6, 2012, 3:14 p.m. CST
"Motion graphics"...the pop-up book of movies..
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Why not just full motion anime?
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You look at the world right now and you know it would have been cooler if they kept kicking it.
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why admit something like that?
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Imagine if they made a trailer out of Ralph McQuarrie's ANH concept art in '77.
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witty banter or gtfo.
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July 6, 2012, 3:42 p.m. CST
Looks more like Dinosaurs VS Mosquitos to me...
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Why do Aliens in modern blockbusters always look so generically shit?
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who gives a shit about motion comics?
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July 6, 2012, 4:12 p.m. CST
So, creatures that can create space ships get beat by dumb animals?
by MaxHeadroom
Uh, how is it that a pea brained dinosaur can beat creatures that could build space ships?
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This is a cool idea. Not sure how Morrison is going to fit in his standard "not going to bother working my ideas into a story so just have a character walk about saying them in dialogue for most of the issue" thing if it's growling dinosaurs. Probably growls with asterisks and translations at the bottom. Is it a motion comic? I don't like motion comics. They're a half way point between two things that work just fine
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July 6, 2012, 4:47 p.m. CST
Yes, an actual movie would have been the way to go here.
by Joey_Jo_Jo_Junior_Shabadoo
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July 6, 2012, 5:32 p.m. CST
I couldn't understand a fucking word Grant Morrison said.
by sundancekeed
Fact.
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WELCOME TO EARF!!! AW HELL NO, NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN!!!
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July 6, 2012, 5:49 p.m. CST
I bow to no one in my love of dinosaurs, but this is stupidity squared
by Raptor Jesus
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July 6, 2012, 6:37 p.m. CST
They should scrap this and make a DinoRiders movie instead
by Chuck_Cobra
THAT i would watch.
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in we3, where the three main characters are a cat, a dog and a rabbit and speak in pidgin english. it's a mostly silent comic, a conceit assisted greatly by the magisterial art of frank quitely. I agree with you about motion comics, they generally suck balls, but maybe grant can do something awesome here as long as he's not bummed to death by sonnenfield.
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Less Spielberg candy-coated kid crap.
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then shut up and take my money.
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Kid's gonna go nuts.
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July 6, 2012, 9:37 p.m. CST
Harry, you moronic toad. This a trailer for a motion comic. Your ignorance is loathesome.
by Aaron
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July 6, 2012, 9:37 p.m. CST
Harry, you moronic toad. This a trailer for a motion comic. Your ignorance is loathesome.
by Aaron
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July 6, 2012, 11:33 p.m. CST
Was gonna watch this but it wanted me to watch an ad first so I'm not gonna
by Autodidact
I don't watch ads to watch ads.
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fuck. you.
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Sonnenfeld says VERY CLEARLY "what if aliens invaded 65 million years ago". So why in the world would you write 230 million? Dude... just...siiiiighhh....
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...it's going to look like what we're seeing IN THE TRAILER. That's it.
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that in show business it is WHO you know that gets projects done. How many of us as children had the EXACT same idea as this? probably all of us at one time or another, but because we're not effeminate Hollywood insiders, we'd never get a pitch meeting or a script read from any major studio. Un f'ing believable.
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I wonder if Sonnenfeld ensured he was working from a complete script when they started? 65 million years ago? Ah, right. So the dinosaurs fuck up the aliens so much that the aliens retreat and nuke the site from orbit, wiping out the dinosaurs? And then along comes Right Said Fred with the black goo?
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Reminds me of the very limited animation in SPACE ANGEL and the like.
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Come on Hollywood... where's my movie deal?
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Why not just read a comic book OR see a movie?
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When an alien virus decimates the chicken population, KFC and Boston Market team up with Microsoft to reverse engineer some alien tech to build a time machine. They then send a joint mission into the past to recover chickens, but things go wrong when they end up back in the Miocene epoch and are pursued by 10 ft. tall and very hungry prehistoric terror birds.
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Honestly can't they think of anything better than Dinosaurs vs Aliens? Cowboys vs Aliens would have been an ok title if it was a comedy......but this can't really be a comedy.
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July 7, 2012, 12:08 p.m. CST
Actually.....it's a pretty SILLY IDEA come to think of it.
by LORDOFLIGHT
If Aliens are able to travel through the fuckin universe....then you can bet yer arse they'd be able to take control of a planet populated by primitive beasts fairly quickly. Are the dinosaurs going to get together to try and take on the aliens----I seriously doubt that somehow. They'd be too busy trying to kill each other for food.
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. . . to get the dinos all decked out in weaponry and tribal looking garb? That one intelligent, brown Sleestak perhaps?
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. . . I got chills thinking of Pixar handling We3!!! Or maybe ILM's animation team. You see Rango? Gorgeous!
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July 7, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
The thing with ANYBODY doing We3 is that it could not be made for kids
by Jaka
This is one of the very few instances when I will jump on the keep it R rated wagon. The violence and tension in We3 is part of what made it so good. If they made a watered down, get a bajillion kids in the theater opening weekend movie, no thanks! I'd pass. If they could do the original as is, hell yes! I'd be there.
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July 7, 2012, 4:11 p.m. CST
Seriously though, terror birds could be awesome monsters for a prehistoric sci-fi action/adventure
by lv_426
The only movie I can think of having some terror bird action is 10,000 BC with a short scene of the primitive men being hunted by them. It would be nice to see some sci-fi time travel films set in other prehistoric epochs other than those featuring your typical popular dinosaurs (T-rex, brontosaurus, triceratops, velociraptors, etc). As for this Dominion: Dinos vs Aliens, the whole concept is going to be hard to swallow. Advanced aliens being challenged by the dinosaurs? I suppose it could be cool if they jump through a bunch of conceptual hoops to explain why this could be the case... like for example have two rival alien factions fighting for control of Earth, and some dinosaurs are implanted with brain chips or something like that, to be used by the aliens as military assets and slave labor. Maybe that alien implant tech then gives the dinosaurs some sort of intelligence boost, and forces them to work together to fight or defend any areas claimed by the aliens? Hell, at this point bring in all kinds of other crazy stuff like say a hypothetical 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter. Maybe one of the two rival alien factions claims this 5th planet as a colony world, while the other faction claims Earth? Then during some big ass war the Earth faction super-nuke the 5th planet into chunks of rocks and space dust, sending the 5th planet's alien settlers into an exiled existence, clawing at a meager existence in what is now the asteroid belt. The angry alien refugee clan then use what is left of their fancy pants alien technology to hurl a big honkin' asteroid at the Earth, which in a bit of poetic justice is a piece of the now destroyed and scattered remains of what was once their planet. This hail mary lob is the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event asteroid impact. So now the two alien factions have messed it all up. Any aliens still alive pack up and head back to their homeworld, leaving Earth back in the hands of mother nature. Their last true act is building a monument to the dead on Mars... a giant face sculpture in the idealized image of their race, the Cydonia face seen from space by NASA probes. Epochs come and go, blah blah blah... then some aliens come back to an Earth now fit for life again. The aliens mingle with us lowly primitive humans, becoming the ancient alien gods of ancient astronaut theory. Stuff happens, more time passes, and eventually it all gets turned into a show on the History Channel called Ancient Aliens. The End.
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July 7, 2012, 4:13 p.m. CST
Seriously though, terror birds could be awesome monsters for a prehistoric sci-fi action/adventure
by lv_426
The only movie I can think of having some terror bird action is 10,000 BC with a short scene of the primitive men being hunted by them. It would be nice to see some sci-fi time travel films set in other prehistoric epochs other than those featuring your typical popular dinosaurs (T-rex, brontosaurus, triceratops, velociraptors, etc). As for this Dominion: Dinos vs Aliens, the whole concept is going to be hard to swallow. Advanced aliens being challenged by the dinosaurs? I suppose it could be cool if they jump through a bunch of conceptual hoops to explain why this could be the case... like for example have two rival alien factions fighting for control of Earth, and some dinosaurs are implanted with brain chips or something like that, to be used by the aliens as military assets and slave labor. Maybe that alien implant tech then gives the dinosaurs some sort of intelligence boost, and forces them to work together to fight or defend any areas claimed by the aliens? Hell, at this point bring in all kinds of other crazy stuff like say a hypothetical 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter. Maybe one of the two rival alien factions claims this 5th planet as a colony world, while the other faction claims Earth? Then during some big ass war the Earth faction super-nuke the 5th planet into chunks of rocks and space dust, sending the 5th planet's alien settlers into an exiled existence, clawing at a meager existence in what is now the asteroid belt. The angry alien refugee clan then use what is left of their fancy pants alien technology to hurl a big honkin' asteroid at the Earth, which in a bit of poetic justice is a piece of the now destroyed and scattered remains of what was once their planet. This hail mary lob is the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event asteroid impact. So now the two alien factions have messed it all up. Any aliens still alive pack up and head back to their homeworld, leaving Earth back in the hands of mother nature. Their last true act is building a monument to the dead on Mars... a giant face sculpture in the idealized image of their race, the Cydonia face seen from space by NASA probes. Epochs come and go, blah blah blah... then some aliens come back to an Earth now fit for life again. The aliens mingle with us lowly primitive humans, becoming the ancient alien gods of ancient astronaut theory. Stuff happens, more time passes, and eventually it all gets turned into a show on the History Channel called Ancient Aliens. The End.
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What other art form only needs a couple kids, consumer grade Adobe software and a lot of junk food to produce product?
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July 7, 2012, 10:50 p.m. CST
Just redirect an asteroid toward Earth or melt the ice caps
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
with a ray. Or are they planning on setting up time shares?
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July 7, 2012, 10:51 p.m. CST
Grant is ripping off that kid who writes Axe cop.
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
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And from another world he shall lead them to victory!
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Looks great! Love Grant and will follow whatever he does and this seems really cool!
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And instead they've Clutch Cargoed the concept art?
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And the invaders took their hits, had their technology crippled so that only a few survived... and eventually started the human race.
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July 9, 2012, 5:54 a.m. CST
@lordoflight I thought they set up a pretty decent scenario in the graphic novel
by doodieboy84
The aliens are basically on their last gasp and almost extinct. Earth is their last chance to keep their species going but they don't have enough manpower or weaponry to easily wipe out the dinosaurs without destroying the planet. It seems to be well thought out and balanced by Morrison.
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It's "proof, that you can make money with your ideas." Most 8 year olds have a shitty record in the money making depratment. But if you inspired the Matrix (Grand Morrisson) and made a shit ton of money with a few alien cop movies (Sonnenfield) than you get to pitch Aliens Vs. Dinosaurs. That said, if you really, really wanted to publish a comic like that, you could have done it I think.
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