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Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-from-those-guys dept.

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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  1. Fan film to original by angryflute · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it's great that these fan-filmmakers are moving on to doing their own original work. But why do comedy? Science fiction and comedy don't go together well -- okay, maybe nobody has done it right. Or maybe it's just damned hard. Doing either comedy or science fiction well by itself is already hard to pull off. At best, maybe these guys will produce something of the brilliance of Red Dwarf or even the Hitchhiker's Guide. Or, worse, it will be (an unfunnier) Spaceballs.

  2. Re:Finns Can't do Parody by MemoryDragon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe if you are a Fin it is not funny, but believe me, the combination of the northern language together with the really funny script made me roll on the floor. This movie was way funnier than spaceballs.

  3. Re:English version please? by 9Nails · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Quote: "Errr... why? It is a Finnish film, made in Finland by Finns - it would follow that they develop, script and shoot in Finnish. Surely."


    I guess my answer is best given as a quote from some other web site, "First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere .05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it."

    http://www.mit.edu/~tahnan/finnish.html

    ...That, and so the English speaking world could enjoy the film too. If it's subtitled, might as well just throw it into a PDF story book format.