Keanu Reeves is playing Klaatu in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still currently being filmed.
How is he supposed to wander around and pose as a human?
The real question is who is playing Ash…
Uh oh, wrong movie, nevermind…
Not my first choice, but I could see him pulling it off.
Oh come on, it’s not that he can’t act, it’s that he usually chooses not to.
Some movies do not need to be remade.
He’d better suited as Gort. Let Ralph Fiennes be Carpen… Klattu.
Won’t hold a candle to the original though.
I bet Gort blows up a lot more stuff.
Perfect thread title, CalMeacham. My first reaction to reading it was, “What, is Keanu in the remake?”
Dude, they won’t have Gort in the remake, but the “Good Robot Uses” from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
What Wile E said.
Do you think Klaatu will be, like, really misunderstood and brooding and stuff?
And will Gort be a more human looking robot, or completely non-humanoid?
Never mind Keanu Reeves as Klaatu. But John Cleese in the role that Sam Jaffe owned as the eccentric professor??? He’s too identified as Q in my mind.
–I have a complaint about this alien.
–Ah, yes. Arcturian Blue. Beautiful plumage.
–I don’t care about the plumage. This is a DEAD alien
–Nooooo… He’s just pinin’ for the nebulae
–Pinin’ for the nenulae? When I got him home, I found that the only reason he was standing upright on his saucer was that he was nailed there.
–He’s just restin’!
–(Thumps Klaatu against the desk; no reaction)
I actually think it’s an interesting project, one which has a lot more potential for interpretation than most remakes. The original film was a Christ-allegory for the Cold War, when the atom bomb was the spectre of inevitable damnation awaiting us all. How does that message apply today?
But then it also stars Keanu Reeves, so it’s pretty much guaranteed to be stupid.
Hardly definitive; we are still talking about Keanu Reeves here.
It could be worse. They could’ve cast Cruise.
“The Day the Earth was Clear.”
“I know Klaatu.”
“Show me.”
You guys are going for the easy movie targets. Let’s see ya work in some Keanu lines from “The Prince of Pennsylvania” or “A Walk in the Clouds” or “My Own Private Idaho” if you’re so clever!
If we did, who would know? Brevity is the soul of wit, and the more easily recognized the line is, the better.
Nobody does Humphrey Bogart imitations with lines from The Return of Dr. X.
Maybe nobody you know…