After the intriguing trailer for Greg and Colin Strause’s Skyline, comes an equally arresting first poster…
Colin and Greg Strause may be the directors of the Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem, but we're hoping that their forthcoming Skyline will cleanse our minds of that earlier, woeful movie.
The trailer, which we saw last week, hints at an alien invasion movie of the Independence Day variety, and while it doesn't have the soaring budget of that movie, there are some neatly imaginative visual effects, including the glimpse of a moment where thousands of humans are sucked up by a vast extraterrestrial vacuum cleaner.
The new poster depicts a similar scene, with thousands of people swept into the sky like so much confetti, and it's an eye-catching, arresting design.
The brothers Strause have reportedly financed the film entirely out of their own pockets, with much of the movie shot in and around Greg Strause's California apartment over the space of about a month.
At the very least, Skyline should look good, since the pair have an impressive history as visual effects designers, with their CVs filled with big names such as The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Avatar. They were also at least partially responsible for the numbing CG car chases in 2009's Fast & Furious, but we'll quietly gloss over that.
It's been years since we saw a really good new alien invasion movie, so we're hoping that Skyline can plug the gap when it appears on 12 November.