Busy working on Michael Bay flick "The Island", Producer Walter Parkes talked with Sci-Fi Wire about his next film - "No Man's Land" - describing it as War of the Worlds meets Chinatown. "It's really good, ... because it's kind of a melding of science fiction and noir cop fiction. Just yesterday, [makeup guru] Rick Baker just started working on designs for the aliens."
Les Bohem, who wrote and executive produced "Taken", wrote the script. No director has yet been attached. "It takes place in New York City eight years after ... the alien invasion that we lost," says Parkes. "And it imagines New York City kind of like Paris during the Vichy government [under Nazi occupation during World War II], where we've all sort of just given up. And there's this race of aliens living there that get all the good tables, and the shops are kind of collaborating. And there's an incipient underground movement to take the Earth back."
The main thrust of the story seems to follow "A cop who lost his wife when the aliens destroyed London, and so he's given up trying. Just trying to keep his [eye] on his eight square blocks of Manhattan, his beat. And there's a murder there, and it seems to be the murder of a human by a 'blue' [an alien]. And he doesn't believe [it]. He thinks there's something fishy, and in finding the truth of that murder, [he] inadvertently reignites the rebellion, which will eventually take the Earth back."
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