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These New Promo Shots From the Blade Runner Sequel Look Terrifyingly Real

The new Blade Runner movie is a terrifying glimpse of the near future. Titled Blade Runner 2049, it doesn’t hit theaters until October 6th, but these new promotional shots look absolutely terrifying. In fact, the dystopian vision of the future that these images present looks all too real. The original Blade Runner had everything from…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 5

New McDonald’s Uniforms Promise to Usher in the Logan’s Run Dystopia We’ve All Been Waiting For

Do the new McDonald’s uniforms remind you of anything? If you answered “every dystopian sci-fi movie ever,” you’re correct. To me, they invoke a very Logan’s Run future. But mandatory gray-on-gray with a dash of black is pretty much universally recognized as the standard uniform for bleakest of futures. The new McDonald’s uniforms will start…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 21

The White King Makes The Hunger Games Look Like Child’s Play

The new international trailer for the British dystopian thriller The White King is out, and it shows that real totalitarianism isn’t wealthy weirdos in pink wigs watching kids fight to the death. Based on the 2008 novel, The White King is about a 12-year-old boy living in a future dystopia who’s labeled a traitor, alongside…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 14

They Saved The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie For Last

The Hunger Games book and movie series has always been about resistance, and particularly about using the machinery and iconography of the oppressor to fight back. Katniss Everdeen is a creation of a violent, manipulative system, but she turns all of its symbolism against it. And in the final movie, Mockingjay Part 2, she turns…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 20

In The First Allegiant Teaser, Tris’ Messiah Complex Goes Up To 11

Tris Prior is a complicated person in a crazy world. And this teaser trailer for Allegiant, the third movie in the Divergent series, shows you just how nutty it gets. Actually, the first half of this teaser trailer is just a recap of the first two movies, in case you’ve forgotten all about how Tris…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Sep 15

During Martial Law, A Man Falls For The Girl Next Door—Who’s A Terrorist

Despite living in a town under lockdown, Nevin lives in relative comfort — at least until his beautiful next-door neighbor shows up in his home. In this dark comedy short film, Nevin becomes an anarchist it win her affection — but how devoted is he really to the cause? Drew Mylrea directed Next Door, and…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 21

Someone Is Writing The Ultimate Generic Dystopian YA Novel On Twitter

We love young adult science fiction, but even we have to admit that sometimes, it can feel like dystopian novels are following a bit script. The new Twitter account @DystopianYA is poking a bit of fun at some of the more common conventions of the genre. Writer and comedian Dana Schwartz is behind the @DystopianYA…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Feb 11

Music video: A futuristic dystopian world that is not too far from ours

This music video for the song Function/Void by British musician The Bug (aka producer Kevin Martin) features a dystopian futuristic world that is literally falling apart—like the life of the sad and lonely humans that inhabit it. Kevin Martin is a London-based English musician, record producer and journalist. You can buy The Bug’s new album…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Sep 30

Bong Joon-ho Explains Why Snowpiercer‘s Violence Is So “Explosive”

At long last, the acclaimed post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer is coming to select U.S. theaters this weekend. We were lucky enough to sit down with director Bong Joon-ho for an exclusive interview, and he unraveled the movie’s themes and the reasons for its unique visual style. Spoilers ahead… Note: We talked to Bong Joon-ho through an…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 25

This Movie May Be the Most Accurate Vision of Earth’s Future Yet

Watch the movie trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s new sci-fi movie, the story of how the 1-percent go live in a perfect artificial world around Earth called Elysium and 99-percent stay in a wasted Earth, producing for them. A dystopian future set in 2154 which now seems more plausible than ever. https://gizmodo.com/new-elysium-trailer-is-f-cking-awesome-513329949

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 14

The Shiny, Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic K-Pop Future

Korean pop music is rigorously produced, stunningly choreographed and filled with beautiful people. Most K-Pop groups are manufactured through contests and production companies looking to capitalize on swoon-worthy heartthrobs. So when this effervescent music turns to dystopian and post-apocalyptic motifs, things get weird. T-ara, “Day by Day” One of the interesting things about K-pop groups…

io9 Amanda Yesilbas Jun 12

Proof that the End of the World Doesn’t Have to be Boring

The era of post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels for young adults may be winding down at last — but one of the best thing to come out of the trend has only just arrived. The anthology After, from editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, is one of the most dazzling collections of stories we’ve read in…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 29

The FP is the world’s first dystopian DDR gang war movie

On paper, the Trost Brothers’ dystopian comedy The FP has all the trappings of an instant cult classic: a loving sendup of ’70s and ’80s movies complete with absurdly costumed gang warriors, heaps of self-aware slang, training montages, and low-stakes battles treated as life-or-death situations. As an added bonus, those battles are played out with…

Movies Lauren Davis Mar 16

In the webcomic Power Nap, nobody ever sleeps except one doomed man

College Roomies from Hell!!! creator Maritza Campos has unleashed her crazy brain in a new webcomic Power Nap, which depicts a future where no one sleeps and everyone works — all the time — and one man who can’t keep his eyes open. Labor-saving devices are miraculous things, but sometimes it seems technology does less…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 30

The Kirby-inspired post-apocalyptic adventures of “American Barbarian”

American Barbarian is a gleeful homage to comics great Jack Kirby by way of the post-apocalyptic barbarian genre – with robotic dinosaurs, a Pharaonic immortal with tanks for feet, and a red-white-and-blue-haired barbarian who must fight them all. Thomas Scioli’s American Barbarian opens in a distant future, where human barbarians live in tenuous peace beside…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis May 21

When invaders occupy Cleveland, life in Dayton becomes very uncomfortable

Add another forthcoming book to the growing list of novels about the collapse of the U.S. Martha Moody, author of Best Friends and The Office of Desire, just sold a dystopian-sounding novel, Sharp and Dangerous Virtues, to Ohio University Press. It’s fascinating to see how many different ways authors imagine the near-future decline and/or fall…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 15

In the dystopian future, the worst punishment is being impaled on a dominatrix’s spiky nipple

This is the greatest scene in cinematic history. A dystopian overlord is getting his face whacked with a flogger by his personal dominatrix, when a hapless underling interrupts him. So the dominatrix teaches him a lesson… with fists and nipples. This priceless moment of cinematic greatness comes from the movie Battle Queen 2020, which might…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 26

There’s no dystopia as campy as a post-Rapture dystopia

Now that we know the Rapture is coming on May 21, it’s time to prepare. So what will life be like after the Rapture? Judging from this awesome post-Rapture movie, it’ll be just like other dystopian futures… only campier. http://gawker.com/5704035/save-the-date-jesus-is-coming-in-may In the direct-to-DVD The Moment After 2: the Awakening, it’s a while after the Rapture,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 12

RoboCop Jr. defends dystopian Detroit

When his son decided that he wanted to be RoboCop for Halloween, this dad didn’t just make him a crafty cyborg suit. He also took his son on a photoshoot through the dystopian streets of Detroit. Jim, who blogs at Sweet Juniper, made this incredible RoboCop costume from a wetsuit he won off eBay, an…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 29

Forget Blade Trinity, Daybreakers’ Vampire Blood Farm is Creeptastic

The new poster for futuristic vampire film Daybreakers gives us a closer look at the creepy, Matrix-like blood farm, where the remnants of humanity provide fresh blood for the vampires who run the world. Earlier this summer, we showed you the fantastic trailer for Daybreakers, set in a future where most humans have become vampires.…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 14

dystopian

These New Promo Shots From the Blade Runner Sequel Look Terrifyingly Real

New McDonald’s Uniforms Promise to Usher in the Logan’s Run Dystopia We’ve All Been Waiting For

The White King Makes The Hunger Games Look Like Child’s Play

They Saved The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie For Last

In The First Allegiant Teaser, Tris’ Messiah Complex Goes Up To 11

During Martial Law, A Man Falls For The Girl Next Door—Who’s A Terrorist

Someone Is Writing The Ultimate Generic Dystopian YA Novel On Twitter

Music video: A futuristic dystopian world that is not too far from ours

Bong Joon-ho Explains Why Snowpiercer‘s Violence Is So “Explosive”

This Movie May Be the Most Accurate Vision of Earth’s Future Yet

The Shiny, Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic K-Pop Future

Proof that the End of the World Doesn’t Have to be Boring

The FP is the world’s first dystopian DDR gang war movie

In the webcomic Power Nap, nobody ever sleeps except one doomed man

The Kirby-inspired post-apocalyptic adventures of “American Barbarian”

When invaders occupy Cleveland, life in Dayton becomes very uncomfortable

In the dystopian future, the worst punishment is being impaled on a dominatrix’s spiky nipple

There’s no dystopia as campy as a post-Rapture dystopia

RoboCop Jr. defends dystopian Detroit

Forget Blade Trinity, Daybreakers’ Vampire Blood Farm is Creeptastic

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

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