'Life' Release Date, News: Extended Sneak Peek Shows What Provoked the Extraterrestrial
"We were better off alone." This is the tagline of Skydance and Columbia Pictures' science fiction/thriller film, "Life," which tackles the story of a group of scientists tasked to intercept a research pod from Mars. Maybe they should change the catchphrase to "We should have stayed on Earth" after they discovered something terrifyingly odious in space.
In the extended sneak peek for the movie, the team manages to recover a pod that will hopefully provide clues about life on Mars. The specimen that they acquired, however, was something that was responsible for wiping out life from the red planet, and it gave them a glimpse of the extent of its abilities.
While one of them is observing the organism in a quarantined room, he was able to analyze that every cell is both muscle and nerve, which means it had equally unimaginable strength and intelligence. While he was quickly stimulating it with low voltages of electricity, the specimen quickly grew and grabbed his hand, and to everyone's horror, crushed his bones with sheer force.
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The first problem that people pointed out with the release of this film is how it can easily be compared to Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" which is slated for a May 19 release. This teaser, however, shows that despite both films working with the concept of extraterrestrial life, the other depicts them with a gory nature while "Life" plays with one's thoughts as to what these beings are capable of.
After barely two days since the sneak peek was revealed, it has already amassed over 1.8 million hits on YouTube, showing how many are curious to see what's going to happen in the film. It has also garnered a whopping 98 percent rating over at Rotten Tomatoes where people said they were excited to watch it when it finally releases.
"Life" arrives in cinemas on March 24, 2017.
