Scene from The Darkest Hour (credit: New Regency/Summit Entertainment)Hollywood shows no signs of slowing its assembly line-like manufacturing of extraterrestrial-themed movies. Several alien-themed movies are scheduled to be released in 2011, and even more continue to be announced on an almost regular basis. Regency Enterprises is currently producing a film called The Darkest Hour—a film about a group of kids in Russia who struggle to survive after an alien invasion. Jon Spaihts wrote the screenplay for this movie, but he also wrote screenplays for two other alien-themed movies currently in production: Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (originally planned as a prequel to Scott’s Alien movie), and a Jerry Bruckheimer space adventure movie, a film about which little information has been released.
The depiction of hostile extraterrestrials unfortunately continues to be a common theme in Hollywood’s movies—even in animated movies targeted towards children.
Here are just a few of the upcoming movie release dates:
I Am Number Four – February 18, 2011
Battle: Los Angeles – March 11, 2011
Mars Needs Moms – March 11, 2011
Paul – March 18, 2011
Apollo 18 – April 22, 2011
Super 8 – June 10, 2011
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon – July 1, 2011
Jason McClellan is a UFO journalist and the producer/co-host of the web series Spacing Out! He is also the web content manager and staff writer for OpenMinds.tv, and a co-organizer and technical producer of the International UFO Congress. As a founding member of Open Minds, Jason served as a writer and editor for the now defunct Open Minds magazine. He has appeared on Syfy, NatGeo, and, most recently, he co-starred on H2's Hangar 1: The UFO Files. ------ Follow Jason on Twitter @acecentric and subscribe to Jason's updates on Facebook.
