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Vikings vs Alien Monster

Vikings vs an alien creature, battling it out among the fjords! How cool does this sound?

An age-old battle rages amongst the stars. Kainan’s people have been fighting the Moorwen, fierce animal-like creatures, for dominance. When his space craft crashes into the fjords of ancient Norway, it’s with dismay that Kainan realizes that he wasn’t the only survivor. A second passenger, a Moorwen, also emerges from the wreckage and into the time of the Vikings, intent on causing harm to those it perceives have wronged it. As the Moorwen kills everything in its path, Kainan has to try and get the feuding tribes to work together long enough to destroy the beast before it destroys them all.

This is Outlander, an epic scifi fantasy directed by Howard McCain and featuring vikings, a crashed alien spaceship and a rampaging monster designed by Patrick Tatopoulos of Godzilla, Independence Day, Pitch Black, Silent Hill and assorted other big-budget monster design fame.

I was naturally wondering about the monster and whether it achieved kaiju proportions. The jury’s still out, but some of these conceptual designs are suggestively positive:

Outlander Moorwen 1

Outlander Moorwen Trap

Moorwen statue

Outland monster

And because it looks so good, here’s a shot of the prow of the viking ship:

Viking ship

And one last image, of the alien spaceship’s arrival:

Ship crashing

You can find out lots about the film here.

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Published:
Mar 08 2008 / 10:29 am
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