Shepard Fairey’s ‘They Live’ Poster Is An Awesomeness Conspiracy

Geoffrey Golden — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:44:31 +0000

Artist Shepard Fairey (Exit Through The Gift Shop) brought us the now famous “Hope” poster that helped put President Obama in the White House. But does Fairey now believe that the president is also a secret alien? If I were to read way too much into this poster, I would say, “yes… formaldehyde-face!”

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The man who asks us to “Obey” via stickers illustrated a new poster for John Carpenter‘s They Live, the 1988 sci-fi/horror/comedy about Rowdy Roddy Piper discovering that the ruling elite are all alien life forms. My sources tell me that David Icke watches it every weekend. Check out the poster below. The Alamo Drafthouse, a place you’d be wise not to text in, is screening the film Thursday night in Austin. They collaborated with art boutique Mondo to bring Fairey on-board.

You can own the limited edition 18 24 inch print for $50. Just follow @MondoNews on June 10, 2011 and some random time during the day, they’ll post the buy link. (/Film)

Matt Reeves Hired For Non-’They Live’ Remake Of ‘They Live’.

Wookie Johnson — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:53:14 +0000

Matt Reeves has been hired to make a non-They Live remake of They Live. Universal has tapped him to write and direct a film project based off the short story 8 O’Clock In The Morning.

The story centers on a man who awakes one day to realize that our society is comprised of and secretly controlled by aliens. The Ray Nelson short story served as the inspiration for They Live, but Reeves’ version will take a completely different approach than John Carpenter‘s.

“I saw an opportunity to do a movie that was very point-of-view driven, a psychological science fiction thriller that explores this guy’s nightmare,” Reeves tells Deadline. “There could be a desperate love story at the center of this. Carpenter took a satirical view of the material and the larger political implication that we’re being controlled I am very drawn to the emotional side, the nightmare experience with the paranoia of Invasion of the Body Snatchers or a Roman Polanski-style film.”

Matt Reeves is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. He caught a lot of flack when he made Let Me In, a remake of beloved genre entry Let The Right One In. So, though he’ll tell a different story than Carpenter did, he’s sure to encounter some divisiveness. Also, Ray Nelson is the original inventor of the propeller beanie. How could anyone ever fill his shoes?

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Shepard Fairey’s ‘They Live’ Poster Is An Awesomeness Conspiracy

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Matt Reeves Hired For Non-’They Live’ Remake Of ‘They Live’.