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Robin Hood Gets a Dystopian Makeover

If you’ve ever thought that the story of Robin Hood could use fewer arrows and more futuristic gunfire, you’re in luck. A new film plans to bring the classic tale of oppression and rebellion to a dystopian future. While Ridley Scott is hard at work on his Gladiator-style interpretation of Robin Hood, Warner Bros. has…

Movies Lauren Davis Aug 7

Battle Angel Alita Could Be Next for the Avatar Treatment

With Avatar nearly in the can, James Cameron is looking toward the next subject for his 3D motion-capture lens. And he’s considering the move from sexy blue aliens to sexy cyborgs with an animated adaptation of Battle Angel Alita. When MTV News talked to Cameron about the possibility of adapting Yukito Kishiro‘s cyberpunk manga series,…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 31

Wall-E, Social Critic

The most controversial movie of the summer… Wall-E? That’s what one writer is claiming. The G-rated animated movie presents a dire image of a morbidly obese human race, crammed into giant spaceships and exhorted to ever greater depths of over-consumption by signs saying “DO YOUR PART, FILL YOUR CART.” (Remember those shopping carts in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 13

Worst Possible Outfits for the Apocalypse

When society implodes, women need to make themselves easy zombie targets, so the boys can run to the hills and get weaponized. That seems to be the point of a lot of self-proclaimed post-apocalyptic fashion, at least. From floor-length hobble skirts with a million straps to straitjackets to kinky boots, the clothes in SludgeFaktory’s post-apocalyptic…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 12

Liquid Supercomputer Has A Meltdown

Zero, the supercomputer from Rollerball, looks 10,000 times cooler than most scifi computers of the 1970s, with their giant tape spools. But it suffers from that typical 60s and 70s problem — the crazy monotone freakout — when Rollerball champion Jonathan E. wants to ask for information about the Corporate Wars. It turns out even…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 25

Norway Builds Giant Shelter For The End Of The World

Norway’s “Doomsday Vault” will open tomorrow, just in time to safeguard our biodiversity against the apocalypse. Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, about 620 miles from the North Pole, the vault has been built to withstand nuclear missiles or a plane crash on top of it, but it’s also far enough above…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 25

What Utopian Scenario Will Totally Come True Soon?

Everybody’s sick of dystopian futures and bleak predictions. Whatever happened to science fiction’s tradition of sunny optimism and can-do cheerfulness? Just because our population is exploding, our consumer economy is dependent on the waning availability of cheap oil and our oceans are dying, is no reason to be negative. Click through to vote for your…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 22

Viggo Takes Young Wolverine On “The Road”

The movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic bestseller The Road is roaring ahead, with the casting of Kodi Smit-McPhee (pictured) as the son of Viggo Mortensen’s character. Smit-McPhee also plays the young Logan in the Wolverine solo movie. The Road starts filiming next month in Pittsburgh (possibly the most dystopian location they could find) and…

Movies Charliejane Jan 30

Nothing Says ‘Party!’ Like Dystopian Disco

Blade Runner: The Final Cut had a screening last night at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, and Warner Bros. decided to host the after-party at the famous Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles. io9 was there, snapping photos and gawking. If you’ve seen the film, then you know it’s the rat-infested condemned shithole where…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 10

Future Cities Will Run On Pig Shit

Forget wind turbines and solar panels. In the ragtag future, Tina Turner will get her mood lighting from hog lagoons. In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, an army of pigs swarms beneath Bartertown, one of the last (semi) civilized outposts. The pigshit produces methane, a gas which keeps the city’s power going. The only thing anybody…

Movies Charliejane Nov 14

New Joss Whedon Show: Eliza Dushku Is An Amnesiac Puppet

Mind-wiped humans serve as “dolls” for the wealthy in Dollhouse, a new TV series from Buffy and Firefly creator Joss Whedon. Echo (Eliza Dushku) can take on any personality you want her to have — complete with memories, skills, languages and “even muscle memory.” Once imprinted, she fulfills the fantasy of whoever rented her, and…

Television Charliejane Nov 1

Robin Hood Gets a Dystopian Makeover

Battle Angel Alita Could Be Next for the Avatar Treatment

Wall-E, Social Critic

Worst Possible Outfits for the Apocalypse

Liquid Supercomputer Has A Meltdown

Norway Builds Giant Shelter For The End Of The World

What Utopian Scenario Will Totally Come True Soon?

Viggo Takes Young Wolverine On “The Road”

Nothing Says ‘Party!’ Like Dystopian Disco

Future Cities Will Run On Pig Shit

New Joss Whedon Show: Eliza Dushku Is An Amnesiac Puppet

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

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

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