French arthouse directors bringing epic shots of city-sized spaceships. Tilda Swinton in a classic Hollywood musical take on the end of the world. The return to the screen of Furiosa and Fury Road. A brand new Ridley Scott approved movie about everybody’s favorite H.R. Geiger alien. Here’s more from Slashfilm:

Although French arthouse virtuoso Bruno Dumont has never made anything close to a science fiction film — his spare, ponderous treatises on human misery and the randomness of suffering throughout history have earned him consistent comparisons to Robert Bresson — his work is infused with enough strangeness and genre-bending tonal idiosyncrasy that the idea of a Bruno Dumont sci-fi flick is not not pretty feasible, actually.

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Set in Northern France like the majority of Dumont’s oeuvre, “The Empire” will chart the conflict of apocalyptic proportions that emerges when two warring extraterrestrial forces land on the Opal Coast. Little is known about the film yet on a plot level, but, conceptually speaking, Dumont has stated that “The Empire” will bridge the gap between the realism of auteurist filmmaking and the grandeur of sci-fi blockbusters, with a focus on the eternal conflict between good and evil at the heart of man.

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