Trailer For The Indie Sci-Fi Film LAST AND FIRST MEN is Set Two Billion Years in the Future
The late film composer Jóhann Jóhannsson had created incredible music for films such as Arrival, Sicario, and Mandy. But, before he passed away in 2018, he directed his own film project, and that film is titled Last and First Man.
The film is narrated by Tilda Swinton and it features 16mm black and white cinematography. The movie captures an apocalyptic future that is set two billion years from now. That’s quite a time jump and we don’t really see movies made that are set that far in the future, so it will be interesting to see what Jóhannsson’s vision for it is.
The synopsis for the film reads:
Two billion years in the future, humanity finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that remains are lone, surreal monuments—the futuristic, solemn, Brutalist stone slabs erected during the communist era in the former Yugoslav republics, arrestingly photographed in luminous 16mm black-and-white. A stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival, Mandy) conjures a world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments, once intended as symbols of unity and brotherhood, now abandoned beacons beaming their message into the wilderness. Based on the cult 1930 science fiction novel by British author Olaf Stapledon, with narration by Tilda Swinton, Last and First Men is a poetic, hopeful, and tragic work: an allegory of remembrance, ideals, and the death of Utopia.
The film was picked up by Metrograph Pictures for a theatrical and digital release on December 10th and you can watch the trailer below.