{"id":4001,"date":"2008-12-11T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2008-12-26T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:56:59","slug":"interview-scott-derrickson-on-the-day-the-earth-stood-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/12\/11\/interview-scott-derrickson-on-the-day-the-earth-stood-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Scott Derrickson on The Day The Earth Stood Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0970416\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4002 alignnone\" title=\"The Day The Earth Stood Still poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tdtess-poster.jpg\" alt=\"The Day The Earth Stood Still poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tdtess-poster.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tdtess-poster-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0970416\/\">The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/a><\/strong> is a remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(1951_film)\">the 1951 sci-fi film<\/a> about an alien who comes to earth in order to assess the planet.<\/p>\n<p>This version stars\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000206\/\">Keanu Reeves<\/a>\u00a0as the alien (named Klaatu), who is assessed by\u00a0team of scientists (played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000124\/\">Jennifer Connelly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0358316\/\">Jon Hamm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000092\/\">John Cleese<\/a>) who must convince him that the human race is worth saving.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke to the director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0220600\/\">Scott Derrickson<\/a><\/strong> about updating a sci-fi classic for the present day.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Scott_Derickson_on_the_Day_The_Earth_Stood_Still.mp3]\n<p>Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Day The Earth Stood Still<\/strong> is out at UK cinemas from Friday 12th December<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Scott_Derickson_on_the_Day_The_Earth_Stood_Still\">Download the interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaytheearthstoodstill.co.uk\/\">Official website for The Day The Earth Stood Still<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0220600\/\">Scott Derrickson<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(1951_film)\">Find out more about the original 1951 film at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day the Earth Stood Still is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi film about an alien who comes to earth in order to assess the planet. This version stars\u00a0Keanu Reeves\u00a0as the alien (named Klaatu), who is assessed by\u00a0team of scientists (played by Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and John Cleese) who must convince him that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[138,692,691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}