The Man from Earth: Holocene

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Movie
Original title The Man from Earth: Holocene
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Schenkman
script Richard Schenkman, Emerson Bixby
production Richard Schenkman, Eric D. Wilkinson
music Mark Hinton Stewart
camera Richard J. Vialet
cut Bobby K. Richardson
occupation
chronology

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The Man From Earth

The Man from Earth: Holocene is an American science fiction film directed by Richard Schenkman , released in 2017 . The film is a sequel to The Man From Earth , released in 2007 . The screenplay was written by Schenkman and Emerson Bixby , son of Jerome Bixby . The film was directed by the producers themselves for marketing purposes on for pirated known side The Pirate Bay released. The main role of John Oldman played as in the predecessor David Lee Smith .

action

The film is about the university professor John Oldman, who now calls himself John Young and has lived for more than 14,000 years. Four students track down his identity and his unnaturally long life and contact his former colleague Art Jenkins. Jenkins, who has ruined his reputation as a scientist for publishing a book about the unbelievable story of John Oldman, demands evidence from the teenagers who break into Oldman's house for it. When the young Tara reveals to the professor that she knows his secret and wants to seduce him, the latter wants to give up his identity as John Young, leave his partner Carolyn and leave headlong. The four students contact Jenkins, who now wants to travel. Meanwhile, they try to persuade Oldman to stay. One of the young men overwhelmed the professor with a stun gun , causing him to pass out. While three students want to pick up Jenkins, who broke down, by car, the deeply religious Philip looks after the unconscious Oldman. He ties him to a chair and when he wakes up he tries to get him to admit that he was Jesus Christ . In the course of the conversation, however, he suspects Oldman of being the Antichrist . An argument ensues in which Oldman is critically injured by Philip. When the other three students return to Oldman's house with Jenkins, both are gone. At the end you see that Oldman is in a cave in the mountains, where he is visited by his old friend Harry. John Oldman explains that he is aging slowly and not regenerating as quickly as he used to. He describes himself as a Holocene Man, having lived through the entire Holocene period , which the film says is now drawing to a close.

production

The film was shot for 12 days in June 2016 in the Los Angeles area. It cost a little over $ 300,000 to produce.

reception

The film was received significantly worse by critics and the public than its predecessor. Producer Wilkinson said that a lot of people would inevitably think the film was sacrilege and ruin the first part.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Todd Spangler: Piracy as Marketing Tool? 'The Man from Earth: Holocene' Producers Have Made $ 45,000 From Self-Pirating Their Movie. In: Variety . April 18, 2018, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The Man From Earth: Holocene. In: film starts. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Man From Earth: Holocene. In: Moviepilot . Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Neil Young, 'The Man From Earth: Holocene': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter. December 10, 2017, accessed December 22, 2019 .