Soylent Inexperienced
I watched Soylent Inexperienced for the primary time a couple of months in the past, realizing the movie’s twist, which I cannot spoil right here. Nonetheless, that didn’t dampen my enjoyment of the Charlton Heston-led, Richard Fleischer-directed adaptation of the Harry Harrison novel. After watching the movie, I questioned why Hollywood had let almost 50 years go by with out an replace?
Set in 2022, the world is overpopulated and brief on meals. Heston, a policeman, is placed on the case of a homicide of an government on the greatest artificial meals firm.
Whereas our world might not seem like the one the movie depicts, lots of the points on the coronary heart of the story are prescient points in the present day. And sci-fi-based stories are sometimes nice candidates for remakes due to the chance to replace the look (1973’s imaginative and prescient of the longer term nonetheless options a number of disco-like imagery, see above) however the themes stay related all through time.
IMDb reveals {that a} Soylent Green remake is, or was, in growth, however there was little to no information on it.
