The editor of the East Oregonian newspaper sent this utterly unverifiable story to the Associated Press news service, and on 26 June, Hearst International put out a press release that contained the fateful term "flying saucers". In June 1947, a commercial pilot, Kenneth Arnold, claimed to have seen nine "flying discs" zipping across Washington state in the US at 1,200 mph. But if you flick through copies of Startling Stories, Super Science Stories and other pulp magazines of the period, you'll see that in the first half of the 20th Century, aliens preferred their transport to resemble submarines and airships. Science-fiction artists had drawn circular spacecraft long before that: an early Flash Gordon strip from 1934 features a spinning "squadron of deadly space-gyros". And yet it didn't take off, so to speak, until the 1950s, when the world went flying-saucer crazy. The flying saucer is a design classic – the archetypal Unidentified Flying Object. "By the end of the 1950s," says Andrew Shail, senior lecturer in film at Newcastle University, "that particular shape had become a shorthand for 'spacecraft piloted by beings from another world', available to everyone working in the visual arts." Sure enough, flying saucers have signified mysterious visitors from Mars and beyond in countless films, TV series, novels, comics, and even hit records, from Mulder's I Want To Believe poster in The X-Files TV series to the popular children's picture book, Aliens Love Underpants. Don't Look Up: The stories that reflect our oldest fear Flash Gordon: An erotic sci-fi extravaganza Maybe, just maybe, Nope will be a proper flying-saucer movie – a celebration of one of the most recognisable and spine-tingling shapes in the history of popular culture. Judging by the twists and turns in Peele's previous films, Get Out and Us, it's impossible to say whether its real or fake, whether it's from the Earth or from outer space, but that glimpse of sparkling silver is tantalising. The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind - and what lies beyond.It's only there for a moment i n the trailer for Jordan Peele's new horror film, Nope, but it's definitely there: a flying saucer. As Flynne searches to discover who has connected their worlds, and for what purpose, her presence here sets dangerous forces into motion…forces intent on destroying Flynne and her family in her own world. And as utterly beguiling as London is… it’s also dangerous. Someone in London, seventy years in the future, has found a way to open a door to Flynne’s world. But this isn’t like any game she’s ever played before: Flynne begins to realize it isn’t virtual reality… it’s real. One night she dons a headset and finds herself in futuristic London-a sleek and mysterious world, alluringly different from her own hardscrabble existence. Smith ( A Simple Plan), director Vincenzo Natali ( In the Tall Grass), Greg Plageman ( Person of Interest), Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy ( Westworld), Athena Wickham ( Westworld), and Steven Hoban ( In the Tall Grass).įlynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz) lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. Executive producers for The Peripheral are creator and showrunner Scott B. The Peripheral is produced by Amazon Studios and Warner Bros Television, in association with Kilter Films. The cast also includes Eli Goree ( One Night in Miami), Louis Herthum ( Westworld), JJ Feild ( TURN: Washington's Spies), T’Nia Miller ( The Haunting of Bly Manor), Charlotte Riley ( Peaky Blinders), Adelind Horan ( The Deuce), Alex Hernandez ( UnReal), Katie Leung ( Chimerica), Julian Moore-Cook ( Peaky Blinders), Melinda Page Hamilton ( Messiah), Chris Coy ( The Deuce), Amber Rose Revah ( Last Light) and Austin Rising ( Alt). Alexandra Billings ( Transparent) plays Detective Ainsley Lowbeer who works with Flynne to identify the killer. Gary Carr ( The Deuce) plays the publicity guy Wilf Netherton who becomes involved in a murder investigation. Jack Reynor ( Midsommar) plays Flynne’s brother Burton.
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