We’ve had teases before for Under The Skin, but now comes the first proper trailer for a movie which has been described as a sci-fi movie that’s like nothing you’d expect from the genre – even if the plot sounds a bit like Species.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jonathan Glazer’s third film following Sexy Beast and Birth, UNDER THE SKIN is the story of an alien in human form. Part road movie, part science fiction, part real, it’s a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.

‘Critically acclaimed at the Venice, Toronto and London film festivals, with special praise going to Mica Levi’s score, UNDER THE SKIN was shot in London and extensively on location in Scotland.

‘Glazer and Walter Campbell wrote the screenplay. Producers are James Wilson (JW Films) and Nick Wechsler (Nick Wechsler Productions). The film is based on a novel by Michel Faber. UNDER THE SKIN is a Film4 and BFI presentation, in association with Silver Reel, Creative Scotland and FilmNation Entertainment.’

It’s due out in the UK on March 14th. [Read more…]

Scarlett Johansson might look like us, but she’s actually an alien who preys on men! Well, at least she is in Under The Skin.

It’s taken a while for the first teaser trailer to arrive, but it’s here now, with Johansson looking sultry as an alien on earth, disguised as the perfect aesthetic form of a mesmerizing woman. She scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon to snare human prey – her voracious sexuality. She is deadly efficient, but over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind. Taking her point of view throughout, the film presents a unique look at our world through alien eyes.

The plot is essentially Species but as the teaser shows, this is something stranger and more interesting. Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) directs the movie, which recently premiered at Telluride. [Read more…]