In light of the recent news show thatQuentin Tarantino might make a Star Trek movie — anR - value Star Trek pic , at that — we pick our jaws up off the storey and begin thinking about other director who took one famous , unexpected roundabout way into the realms of scifi or fancy . Here are seven favorites .
7) Popeye
Back in the former 1980s , when America was grapple with Annie fever , a much less successful musical drollery made its mode to the projection screen , free-base on E.C. Segar ’s comic strip . Robin Williams , in his first starring role , play the boater with divertingly Brobdingnagian forearms ; Shelley Duvall was the more physically obvious choice to play Olive Oyl . The movie is kind of a stack overall , though it does have some laughable present moment and Harry Nilsson ’s soundtrack is a standout of the era . But possibly the strange thing about Popeye is the fact that Robert Altman directed it , apparently in a bid to find mainstream commercial-grade achiever after a chain of critically - acclaim cinema like McCabe & Mrs. Miller , Nashville , and A Wedding . Its failure did n’t really harm Altman ’s career ; in fact , it might ’ve in reality encouraged him to re - sweep up his favored fashion of making photographic film with overlap storylines and large ensemble mould — which means we got The Player , Short Cuts , and Gosford Park to go with one of the weirdest comic striptease - free-base cult film ever .
6) Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola does n’t really make movies these day , but in 1992 , he was still very much in the Hollywood mixture . The director of Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy had ventured out of drama before ( with picture like the comedy Peggy Sue Got splice , and , lest we forget , Michael Jackson ’s Captain EO ) , but never so boldly as with Bram Stoker ’s Dracula , a lavish interpretation of the gothic repugnance classic . The plastic film won well - deserve Oscar for its make - up and costumes , and it ’s still a gorgeous example of what pass when an A - lister dips into a genre outside of what they ’re unremarkably get laid for , with A - list resource to back him up . In front of the photographic camera , Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins — as the title vampire and his nemesis , Van Helsing — allow just enough camp to cringe into their to a great extent - accented functioning . On the other hand , a Point Break - era Keanu Reeves is distractingly miscast as Jonathan Harker . It ’s honest just to think of him as risible moderation .
5) Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer was well - know as a music video and commercial-grade music director before he go making features , but his 2000 launching Sexy Beast brought him big - cover acclaim . He follow the law-breaking thriller with Birth , a dramatic play about a maybe - but - not reincarnation that did n’t meet with as much succeeder . But his most recent film , Under the Skin , took a somewhat familiar jumping - off power point — alien get along to Earth , assumes an attractive form , and get consuming victim — and made it into one of the most visually advanced scifi motion-picture show in recent eld . Some shot were filmed using hidden cameras , make the interactions between an in - character Scarlett Johansson and random strangers almost documentary - like . On the other hand , the scene where the extraterrestrial being devours her prey are altogether stylized , backed by an eery experimental account by Mica Levi . But like Johansson ’s nonnatural huntsman , Under the Skin is more than just its cautiously - construct surface . It ’s also deeply paying attention , offering a bare-ass , often uncomfortable test of humankind at its best and bad .
4) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Director Philip Kaufman has had a varied life history that cover spell credit on two Indiana Jones movies , titillating tales The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Henry & June , and the Sean Connery - Wesley Snipes action thriller heighten Sun . He is nothing if not various . He ’s only made one scifi flick to day of the month , but it ’s up there with John Carpenter ’s The matter as one of the superlative genre remaking ever . His Invasion of the Body Snatchers picks up the McCarthy - era paranoia of the original movie and repurposes it perfectly in post - Watergate San Francisco , a X past the Summer of Love , with awkward winds of oppression in the air . It ’s tense and terrific , with a killer whale cast ( Donald Sutherland , Brooke Adams , Jeff Goldblum , Leonard Nimoy ) . And it ’s not without phantasmagorical weirdness , thanks to the book by W.D. Richter ( Big Trouble in Little China , Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ) . Once seen , the human - faced dogwill haunt you evermore , as will the diabolical shrieking emitted by pod citizenry when they spot a human holdout in their midst .
3) Code 46
Michael Winterbottom has made historical dramas , romantic comedies , literary adaptations , and at least one bona fide cult classic ( 24 Hour Party People , though there are some mighty passionate fans of The Trip films , too ) . But he ’s only got one scifi plastic film under his swath : The noirish Code 46 , scripted by his frequent collaborator Frank Cottrell - Boyce . It imagines a near future tense where inherited codes are monitor and baffle , and all traveling between the existence ’s streamlined , affluent cities is tightly controlled . This dystopia seems an unconvincing place for sensation - cross lovers , but we get a passionate pair : policy investigator Tim Robbins , who has an “ empathy virus ” that crap him remarkably emotionally tuned - in , and working - course of study document forger Samantha Morton . ( If they seem like an peculiar match , you ’re already catching onto one of the movie ’s big plot reveals . ) There ’s a fragile edge give to Code 46 ’s bright worldbuilding , but the human relationship drama — hey , it ’s hard to receive passion in a place where memory rub are just as common as human clone — is also surprisingly effective .
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2) Angel Heart
1) Hulk
After go against out in Asia with celluloid like Eat Drink Man Woman , then finding art - theatre winner stateside with Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm , Ang Lee became a family name when Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon became a global sensation . His next picture show was … 2003 ’s Hulk , which star Eric Bana , Jennifer Connelly , and Sam Elliott , with a cameo by OG television Hulk Lou Ferrigno . Though it was received comparatively courteously by critic , the incubation would - be blockbuster did n’t garner enough interest for a sequel ; instead , a reboot — The Incredible Hulk , directed by Louis Leterrier and star Edward Norton — strike theaters five years later and was greeted with a standardized shrug . Those two films may blur together for audience in 2017 , especially now that we have a totally different , and means more popular , variation of the Hulk character stomping through the Avengers films — but Lee came out all right , going on to get ahead two Best Director Oscars ( for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi ) in rapid chronological succession . Also , if Tarantino does make that Star Trek moving picture , Lee ’s Hulk will no longer be the quite the most unexpected coupling of director and genre movie on record .
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