"The Day the Earth Stood Still" will be the first film intentionally 'beamed' into space, according to 20th Century Fox, making it the first galactic motion picture release in history. The film will be launched via the Deep Space Communications Network at Cape Canaveral. It will be broadcasted through space at 186,000 miles per second to Alpha Centauri, a three star system.
Ed ~ 20th Century Fox do not know if there are aliens or whether they are friendly - so it is a bit irresponsible for any message to be beamed into space. Perhaps a boycott of the film and legal actions against this will change their minds.
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 black-and-white science fiction film that tells the story of a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth with a warning.
Although the modern-day reincarnation of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" may not rise to the classic status of the 57-year-old original, it fortifies the science-fiction story with some fresh science facts. The original 1951 movie was a black-and-white, Space Age parable about a planet in peril ... from the potential threat of nuclear war.