![]() As hard as it is to believe that adults would go to see "Death Race 2000," though, these movies weren't intended for teen audiences. I can think of a dozen post-apocalyptic movies that I saw as a teen, in the '80s, at the Harvard Square and Orson Welles theaters - including "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and sequels, "The Omega Man" (1971), "Sleeper" (1973), "Death Race 2000" (1975), "A Boy and His Dog" (1975), and of course "Road Warrior" (1981). So I feel that I should be able to answer this question. The post-apocalypticist blog Quiet Earth asks whether the Tom Hanks-produced movie, which stars Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway (above) as the teen protagonists, and Bill Murray (below) as the Mayor of Ember, "will be the first Post Apocalyptic Children's film?"Īs Brainiac readers know, I'm a lifelong reader of post-apocalyptic juvenile fiction. But will there by anything left on the surface of the planet? The children have to decode cryptic clues left behind by the city's founders - it's a hermeneutic novel, perhaps my favorite genre - and escape. In the novel, two teens who've grown up in Ember, a truly isolated city, discover that (a) the city is running out of food and energy, no thanks to its corrupt mayor and (b) the city is underground (no wonder there aren't any stars at night, or animals for that matter), and was built a couple of hundred years earlier to protect a large group of American children from a nuclear holocaust. But the producers have issued posters, movie stills, and put up an ominous website, so the blogosphere is getting interested. Gil Kenan's big-screen adaptation of "The City of Ember," a 2003 young adult novel by Jeanne Duprau, isn't premiering until October.
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