SKYLINE is an upcoming alien invasion Sci-Fi thriller directed and produced by the Brothers Strause (Colin and Greg Strause).
Skyline is written by Joshua Cordes and Liam O’Donnell and stars Donald Faison (Scrubs), Eric Balfour, David Zayas, Scottie Thompson and Brittany Daniel.
The Strause Brothers are better known for their visual effects experience in such films as Avatar, 300, and a slew of super hero films.
The storyline is one we’ve seen many times, a mass alien abduction with a singular purpose of wiping out the entire human race. With massive Spaceships’ hovering ominously above Los Angeles and giant aliens with strange tongue-like tentacles ripping Army helicopters out of the sky.
Faison plays Terry, a former New Yorker who has become an entrepreneur in Los Angeles. When Terry decides to throw a party, his best friend Jarrod (Balfour) flies in from New York with his girlfriend Elaine (Thompson).
Jarrod and Elaine's trip to Southern California was supposed to be a simple weekend away to visit Terry and his girlfriend, Candice (Brittany Daniel), for his birthday.
After a late night party, the group of friends are woken in the dead of the night by an eerie blue light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the people are drawn by the strange light put in place by an extra-terrestrial force determined to take over Earth.
Once caught in the glare of the light people are suddenly vanishing into thin air. They soon discover an otherworldly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth and that they are some of the last few members of the human race left.
As they watch in terror from Terry's penthouse windows, the seductive blue lights come crashing down into homes and businesses as people across the city are swallowed into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. The city is left in rubble and engulfed in smoke.
The good people left in Los Angeles try to flee the city to safety out of sight and sound of the aliens by any means. And so the group of friends set about avoiding the same fate as those around them, as they struggle to resist temptation to look into the light and try to discover the source of the luminous threat but with destruction and chaos everywhere, will they survive?
Visual effects supremoes The Strause brothers the team behind AVPR: Aliens Vs Predator Requiem, returns yet again with a no doubt good-looking sci-fi thriller.
Skyline has some good special effects, but it doesn’t make up for the poor storyline. The dialogue and cast isn’t the best but at the very least Skyline looks fantastic.
Billed as an edge-of-your-seat action thriller with an extraterrestrial twist, there's not much happening throughout most of it, but the final scene is breathtaking with an interesting ending. The film will keep you anticipating their survival till the very end.
This film opens nationwide on Friday 12th November 2010 I’m sure it will attract a lot of attention from Sci Fi lovers, but more so for the special effects rather than the storyline and acting.
Skyline is written by Joshua Cordes and Liam O’Donnell and stars Donald Faison (Scrubs), Eric Balfour, David Zayas, Scottie Thompson and Brittany Daniel.
The Strause Brothers are better known for their visual effects experience in such films as Avatar, 300, and a slew of super hero films.
The storyline is one we’ve seen many times, a mass alien abduction with a singular purpose of wiping out the entire human race. With massive Spaceships’ hovering ominously above Los Angeles and giant aliens with strange tongue-like tentacles ripping Army helicopters out of the sky.
Faison plays Terry, a former New Yorker who has become an entrepreneur in Los Angeles. When Terry decides to throw a party, his best friend Jarrod (Balfour) flies in from New York with his girlfriend Elaine (Thompson).
Jarrod and Elaine's trip to Southern California was supposed to be a simple weekend away to visit Terry and his girlfriend, Candice (Brittany Daniel), for his birthday.
After a late night party, the group of friends are woken in the dead of the night by an eerie blue light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the people are drawn by the strange light put in place by an extra-terrestrial force determined to take over Earth.
Once caught in the glare of the light people are suddenly vanishing into thin air. They soon discover an otherworldly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth and that they are some of the last few members of the human race left.
As they watch in terror from Terry's penthouse windows, the seductive blue lights come crashing down into homes and businesses as people across the city are swallowed into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. The city is left in rubble and engulfed in smoke.
The good people left in Los Angeles try to flee the city to safety out of sight and sound of the aliens by any means. And so the group of friends set about avoiding the same fate as those around them, as they struggle to resist temptation to look into the light and try to discover the source of the luminous threat but with destruction and chaos everywhere, will they survive?
Visual effects supremoes The Strause brothers the team behind AVPR: Aliens Vs Predator Requiem, returns yet again with a no doubt good-looking sci-fi thriller.
Skyline has some good special effects, but it doesn’t make up for the poor storyline. The dialogue and cast isn’t the best but at the very least Skyline looks fantastic.
Billed as an edge-of-your-seat action thriller with an extraterrestrial twist, there's not much happening throughout most of it, but the final scene is breathtaking with an interesting ending. The film will keep you anticipating their survival till the very end.
This film opens nationwide on Friday 12th November 2010 I’m sure it will attract a lot of attention from Sci Fi lovers, but more so for the special effects rather than the storyline and acting. 
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