#Beyond skyline trailer movie#

The film is produced through the Strause Brothers visual effects company Hydraulyx, which has produced visual effects for such films as James Cameron’s “Avatar”, “2012”, “Skyfall”, “Hardcore Henry”, “300”, “Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides”, and “The Avengers”, in addition to “Aliens vs Predator: Requiem” and the original “Skyline”.

The bladed alien gauntlet Mark and Sua use in the climactic fight was dubbed the “Power Claw” by the cast and crew.

The original film’s director, Gareth Evans, will also serve as executive producer.

Frank Grillo is also set to appear in the upcoming English-language remake of “ The Raid“, under the direction of filmmaker Joe Carnahan.

This ultimately ended up working out for them in the end, given that his character Mark injures his leg while on the ship! While he recovered, the production filmed the scenes inside the alien ship, and returned to finish the fight when he had healed. Frank Grillo, who is an accomplished Jiu-jitsu practitioner, pulled his hamstring while executing a back kick during the climactic fight sequence.Liam O’Donnell is the nephew of MSNBC newscaster Lawrence O’Donnell, who appears as a newscaster in the teaser for the first “Skyline”.

Grillo appeared as Brock Rumlow aka Crossbones in “Captain America: Civil War” (reprising the role from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”), and Mulvey portrayed Anatoli Knyazev aka KGBeast in “ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice“. In 2016, both Frank Grillo and Callan Mulvey appeared in comic book movies featuring superheroes fighting each other.The two brothers previously directed 2007’s “Aliens vs Predator: Requiem”. The first “Skyline” was directed by visual effects artists Colin and Greg Strause, with Liam O’Donnell serving as producer and co-writer.With action, aliens and martial arts galore, “Beyond Skyline” is beyond electrifying! Trivia The scope is at once convincingly huge and intimate, and cinema’s foremost experts of Silat kick intergalactic butt in breathtaking and genuinely unique action sequences. The visual effects, both CGI and practical are consistently impressive, especially the alien suits and spacecraft interiors. Striving to succeed as both a sci-fi thriller and a martial-action flick, “Beyond Skyline” absolutely nails both. Iko as Sua shows off some cool silat moves You literally could not ask for more from an alien invasion-martial arts thriller!

#Beyond skyline trailer movie#

Armed with blades of both human and alien-making, our heroes kick and slice through some refreshingly non-CGI extra-terrestrial opponents, with Yayan recalling the unstoppable ferocity of his ‘Mad Dog’ role (in more ways than one), and Iko snagging the best line of the movie after a particularly memorable alien vanquishing moment.Īdding more fuel to that fire are the efforts of the human survivors to release the minds of the abducted humans from the control of their alien overlords, while two alien soldiers, one of whom has broken free from his mental coercion, slug it out in two colossal mech-suits “Pacific Rim”-style.

Epic temple looks like Angkor Wat in CambodiaĪs cliché as it sounds, the finale of the film is truly something you’ve never seen before – Mark, Sua, and their motley crew in a martial arts battle against hulking alien invaders in the grounds of an epic ancient temple, resembling Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat.