20th Century Fox, the studio behind this Friday’s “The Day The Earth Stood Still” remake is so sure about the awesomeness of their remake that they’re beaming the movie into outer space for aliens to see. No, I shit you not. They are beaming the movie out into outer space. Obviously this is a sad, sad publicity ploy for a movie that has been bashed up and down, side to side, and in and out by the fanboy base on the Internet for being, well, pandering and just downright sucky. I don’t think I’ve read a single decent review for this thing, which isn’t a surprise. It’s a totally unnecessary remake of a classic where the main storyline has been changed because Hollywood is currently so in love with itself for “battling” Global Warming that it’s back is sore from all the back slapping it’s doing.

Two new images from Scott Derrickson’s remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” have arrived online. The most curious image is the one with stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. What you have here is the incredibly expressive Connelly with the incredibly stilted Reeves. The difference, on the big screen, should be worth a nice laugh or two. And hey, maybe they won’t get as heavy handed with the whole “global warming is going to destroy us all!” message that we’ve been hearing rumors about. Probably not, though.

Who knows if Keanu Reeves and director Scott Derrickson’s remake of the 1951 classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still” will connect with audiences or make them leave the theater groaning in despair — no, not because of the movie’s contemporary message about global warming, but that they just spent another $10 watching Keanu Reeves play a stiff, barely humanoid alien. Doesn’t he play that in every movie? But I digress. Two new posters from the movie have showed up online.

Let’s face it, Hollywood’s attempt to turn the classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still” into another pointless, preachy movie about the environment has already turned off a lot of people. It’s bad enough that Keanu Reeves is expected to emote in this movie, but add to it the insulting nature of being preached to by a movie made on a bloated budget, by a community obsessed with its own excesses, and it almost makes you want to throw something at the screen. Having said that, here’s the first teaser poster for the movie, which claims a release date of December 2008, a year earlier than anyone had expected.

Uh oh. It looks like someone from Aint-it-cool-News, or someone who regularly writes for them, has gotten their hands on the script for the upcoming “The Day the Earth Stood Still” remake. As you’ll recall, Keanu Reeves let the cat out of the bag a few weeks back when he told MTV that the new version will involve Global Warming instead of nuclear annihilation, which as you might expect, made me think this movie was gonna suck because of that pandering crap. Now according to the script review — yup, it’s gonna suck because it just, well, plain sucks, apparently.

You knew it had to happen, and in the back of you mind, you even suspected. Yes, it’s true, the upcoming remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” will throw away the “end violence” message of the 1951 original, and instead exchange it with a “get green” message of today. I guess in a way I sort of knew this was going to happen. It’s Hollywood, after all, and “going green” is the cause du jour of the last few years. They’ll keep pumping the same message until something more sexy comes along.

Keanu Reeve’s remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” continues to add to its cast. The latest addition will make all the Battlestar Galactica fans out there happy, because Aaron Douglas (aka the chief monkey wrench on the Galactica) has joined the cast. No word on what character he’ll be playing.

Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, stars of the upcoming “The Day the Earth Stood Still” remake, is getting a precocious 8-year old — Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith, last seen pandering for Oscar votes in the elder Smith’s “The Pursuit of Happyness”.

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In case you haven’t heard, Hollywood is remaking a contemporary version of the 1951 sci-fi classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. The remake was announced a while back, and would star Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, and would be directed by Scott Derrickson (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”). Now Reuters reports that Jon Hamm, of the AMC TV series Mad Men, has joined the cast.