Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky

An anonymous reader writes "The makers of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 cross-over spoof Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning have announced their upcoming movie Iron Sky. It's apparently another sci-fi comedy with its own universe. Says Director Timo Vuorensola: 'It is still an open question whether it will be distributed also for free. We would very much like it, but it will depend a lot on the financiers.'"

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The first one was great

[Ricken]

I saw the first one, it was really good, even though you need subs because of the finnish.
Amazing what some students can do with some computer skills and amateur acting.

Re:Fan film to original

[pimpimpim]

I think space balls was a pretty nice movie! Maybe it's not hot shot intelligent kind of humor, but I laughed my ass off!

Qalaxy Quest with Tim Allen is much less known than the other ones you mentioned, but also pretty nice: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ Especially because of the many references to Sci-Fi fans and their peculiarities. Or am I insulting people here now :)

To the creators

[sabit666]

Sorry, your effort was commendable, however the movie wasn't that funny.

Star Trek linked to pedophilia?

[Anonymous Coward]

This has very little to do with the article, but the L.A. Times recently published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:

On one wall is a "Star Trek" poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.

Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.

So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?

Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."

Det. Constable Warren Bulmer slips on a Klingon sash and shield they confiscated in a recent raid. "It has something to do with a fantasy world where mutants and monsters have power and where the usual rules don't apply," Bulmer reflects. "But beyond that, I can't really explain it."

I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.

Re:Fan film to original

[Blakey Rat]

Sorry to reply to myself.

Take a look at Wikipedia's list of comedy science fiction movies and notice all the good ones in there.

With the brunette, their movie may be watchable.

[slashdotmsiriv]

The only thing that saved their last totally unfunny movie was the special effects and the smoking hot brunette (what's her name anyone?).

Re:With the brunette, their movie may be watchable

[mwooller]

That would be Tiina

http://starbase.globalpc.net/~xmx/images/babe1.jpg

Get the DVD? Support the creators!

[hicksw]

It appears the star wreck store is offering to ship DVDs anywhere now

http://store.starwreck.com/epages/TP.sf/?ObjectID= 4604&Locale=en_US

They are also accepting donations toward "Iron Sky" at

http://www.ironsky.net/