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Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! is set in an overpopulated New York City in 1999 (33 years after the time of first publication). Thirty-year-old Police Detective Andy Rusch lives in half a room, sharing it with Sol, a retired engineer who has adapted a bicycle to generate power for an old television set and a refrigerator.
Saul David assumed responsibility in 1974, with Soylent Green author Stanley R. Greenberg assigned to write. Greenberg devised the idea of Carrousel, but afterwards dropped off the project. [ 7 ] David Zelag Goodman wrote a nearly completely new screenplay, raising the age of death from 21 to 30 to allow for more actors to be considered for ...
The film differs from the novel (and the previous film) in several ways. [5] [6] In the novel, humanity is destroyed by a bacterial plague spread by bats and mosquitoes, which turns the population into vampire-like creatures; whereas, in this film version, biological warfare is the cause of the plague that kills most of the population by asphyxiation and turns most of the rest into nocturnal ...
Robinson's roles included an insurance investigator in the film noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (the adversary of Moses) in The Ten Commandments, and his final performance in the science-fiction story Soylent Green. [5] Robinson received an Academy Honorary Award for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months after he died in 1973.
"The Green Knight" director David Lowery and star Dev Patel break down the surprising yet satisfying ending of the new Arthurian fantasy. 'Green Knight' spoilers: Why that shocking final scene is ...
Logan's Run is a science fiction novel by American writers William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic Malthusian future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching the age of 21.
Juno Temple’s Dr. Payne turns into a purple symbiote with super speed (thanks to being struck by lightning as a child) and she retains her powers by the end of the movie. The post-credits scene ...