{"id":1127,"date":"2008-07-16T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/update-outlander-2\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:14:19","slug":"update-outlander-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/update-outlander-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Outlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/update-outlander-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another trailer<\/a> for the vikings vs alien monster movie <strong>Outlander<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. Howard McCain) has just surfaced. I like it even more than the previous! It emphasises the sci-fi aspects of the storyline, which just makes the whole project seem fractionally more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a few comments by folk who find the concept of an alien hunting an alien monster\/predator during the time of the Vikings too outr\u00e9 to work easily. But I do not understand that attitude at all. From my way of thinking, the concept offers a rich vein of visual and narrative possibility for the filmmakers to mine  &#8212; and, given decent production values (which <em>Outlander<\/em> seems to have), I don&#8217;t know how this film could fail to be interesting at the very least. It&#8217;s one of those ideas that&#8217;s so obvious you wonder why it hasn&#8217;t been done before!<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TkT4JNS281M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TkT4JNS281M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/story\/outlanders-second-trailer-crashes-earth\" target=\"_blank\">Dread Central<\/a> and Avery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another trailer for the vikings vs alien monster movie Outlander (US-2008; dir. Howard McCain) has just surfaced. I like it even more than the previous! It emphasises the sci-fi aspects of the storyline, which just makes the whole project seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/update-outlander-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}