Humanity embraces its exotic lords

Chicago Citizens Embrace Their Foreign Lords in Rupert Wyatt's Trailer Captive state. This is not the first sci-fi offer of the English filmmaker, who made his name ten years ago on the prison escape thriller. The Escapist. In fact, here in the United States, Wyatt is best known for successfully relaunching the Planet of the Apes movie franchise with its prequel / reboot 2011, The ascension of the Planet of the Apes.

An original project that Wyatt co-wrote with his wife Erica Beeney (The Battle of Shaker Heights) in addition to directing, Captive state resumes ten years after the extraterrestrials seized our world. Since then, however, some humans have started cooperating with extraterrestrials, while others remain in open rebellion. According to his synopsis, the film "explore life on both sides of the conflict", even as humanity as a whole is adjusting to living under its leaders in another world.

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the Captive state the distribution is run by Moonlight actor Ashton Sanders, who also appeared in front of Denzel Washington in The equalizer 2 earlier this summer. Sander is joined by John Goodman (who has already starred in Wyatt's thriller-thriller) The player) and ConspiracyVera Farmiga, as well as Jonathan Majors (hostile), Madeline Brewer (The servant's tale) And Colson Baker alias. Kelly machine gun (bright). Watch the movie trailer in the space below.

Judging by the synopsis and the trailer, Captive state works as a political allegory through small-scale extraterrestrial invasion thriller. Wyatt's genre films generally have more substance than their local B movie might suggest, and his last one seems to be no exception in this respect. the Captive state The trailer teaser did not even touch the science fiction elements of the film, which shows how the film tries to feel like a drama thriller anchored (apart from its extraterrestrial occupants).

Focus Features at the origin Captive state should be released in theaters last month, before it is postponed to March 2019. As things stand, the film will now be used as counter-programming for the live action of Tim Burton and Disney. Dumbo when he will open in the United States next year. If word of mouth eventually ends up on the side of the film, then Captive state can still become something of a cult hit. The film will probably have a harder time breaking into the mainstream, but it does not really need it, thanks to its relatively low production budget of $ 25 million.

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