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Sony Pictures has hired short film directors Tom Jenkins and Simon Sharp to write and direct their sci-fi alien feature film called Giants.
The story follows "an alien race known as Giants on planet Gigantus who are attacked by a foreign spacecraft, which prompts a team of soldiers to embark on a mission to Earth in order to wage war. The aggressors are taken aback when they realize they were giants on their home planet, they are 1/4 inch tall compared to earthlings, and the foreign spacecraft that attacked them was actually a loose screw from the Hubble telescope. The giants land in a nerdy kid’s yard, and through a series of events bond to save the world."
That story might sound familiar to some of you, and that's because it's a very similar plot as the Twilight Zone episode "Invaders." This seems like it will end up having more of a comedy element to it though, and the roles of the aliens and humans are reversed. In the Twilight Zone episode, it was the humans who landed on a planet of alien giants. There was no bonding to save the world though, just brutally violent deaths.
What do you think about the concept of this new sci-fi film?
