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Neill Blomkamp and Sigourney Weaver Have A 20-Minute Movie Pitch For You Called Rakka

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Neill Blomkamp and Sigourney Weaver Have A 20-Minute Movie Pitch For You Called Rakka

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Published on June 15, 2017

Rakka, Sigourney Weaver

Neill Blomkamp never got to make his Alien movie with Sigourney Weaver, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t try their darnedest to get the closest possible thing. Here is a twenty-minute short film called Rakka, written and directed by Blomkamp and starring Weaver.

Rakka reads more as a pitch for a longer work, even ending on a cliffhanger. There’s a frightful amount of exposition in here, which certainly makes the story clear, but would be better if it wasn’t woven throughout the entire thing.

What do you think? Would you watch a full film version of Rakka?

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

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Emmet Asher-Perrin is the News & Entertainment Editor of Reactor. Their words can also be perused in tomes like Queers Dig Time Lords, Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction. They cannot ride a bike or bend their wrists. You can find them on Bluesky and other social media platforms where they are mostly quiet because they'd rather to you talk face-to-face.
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