Forbidden Planet: The Moment Hollywood Got Serious About Sci Fi Cinema

Great piece from Kali Wallace that looks back at the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and makes a very convincing argument that it was a turning point in Sci-Fi cinema.

It’s difficult to imagine what science fiction cinema would look like today without Forbidden Planet. It was released in 1956, in the middle of a decade overflowing with sci fi movies, but its impact is so widespread, its influence so lasting and profound, that there are elements of it everywhere you look: Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, the films of James Cameron and Ridley Scott, and so much more. Made for a huge-at-the-time budget of $2 million, filmed in a lavish production at the MGM studio, borrowing special effects creators from Disney, featuring a truly unprecedented musical score, and with a story based on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, everything about Forbidden Planet seems to be saying that it’s time to stop playing about with B-movie monsters and start taking sci fi cinema seriously.

Read more here on ReactorMag.


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