The Invasion (film)
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| Directed by |
Oliver Hirschbiegel James McTeigue (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Joel Silver |
| Written by | David Kajganich The Wachowskis (uncredited) |
| Based on |
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney |
| Starring |
Nicole Kidman Daniel Craig Jeremy Northam Jackson Bond Jeffrey Wright Veronica Cartwright |
| Music by | John Ottman |
| Cinematography | Rainer Klausmann |
| Edited by | Joel Negron Hans Funck |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Russian |
| Budget | $65 million |
| Box office | $40.2 million |
The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction [[[thriller film]] starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by The Wachowskis and directed by James McTeigue.
The Invasion is the fourth film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, following Don Siegel's 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of the same name, and Abel Ferrara's 1993 Body Snatchers.
After the space shuttle Patriot crashes on Earth, a fungus-like alien lifeform is discovered on the remaining parts scattered over US territory. Once people come into contact with the organism, they are controlled by it when they enter REM sleep. One of the first people infected is Tucker Kaufman, a CDC director investigating the crash.
Tucker's ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell, begins to feel something is amiss when people seem to have "changed". Her patient Wendy Lenk describes how her husband "is not her husband", and one of her son's friends acts detached and emotionless. At a neighborhood Halloween party, Carol's son Oliver finds a "skin" on a partier which is initially believed to be costume make-up. Carol speculates that the skin may be an organism connected to reports of a fast-spreading flu. Carol takes the organism to her doctor friend Ben Driscoll to have it checked. Carol attends a friendly dinner meeting between Russian diplomat Yorish and Czechoslovakian diplomat Belicec (along with female companion Luddie) and discusses her post-modern feminism views over caviar and champagne. Meanwhile, Tucker uses the CDC to spread the disease further, disguising the spores as flu vaccine.
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