“Life” might not have been a giant hit when it landed in theaters in 2017, however a number of years later it is discovering new life on Prime Video. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, the sci-fi horror movie has climbed to the highest of the streaming charts, coming in at No. 4, and truthfully, it deserves this second probability. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the forged of “Life” additionally contains Rebecca Ferguson, Emmy-winning “Shōgun” star Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Ariyon Bakare. Alongside Gyllenhaal and Reynolds, they play astronauts on the Worldwide House Station who make contact with an alien lifeform. Sadly, this little nibbler is not the pleasant variety and shortly exterminates the crew one after the other, leaving the survivors to do the whole lot they’ll to stop it from returning to Earth.
Our personal Jacob Corridor described “Life” as “an old style B-Film dressed up like a blockbuster,” with an excellent creature on the heart of this function. At occasions paying homage to the likes of “Alien” and “The Factor,” the Daniel Espinosa-directed movie retains you hooked because of the star energy that’s failing miserably at maintaining this monster at bay. This might be any fundamental band of spacewalkers daring to poke the beastie with a stick, however as a result of it is Gyllenhaal, Reynolds, and crew making an attempt to cease the starfish-like house invader, it makes for a far higher watch than it needs to be.
It additionally turns into a good higher viewing if you happen to observe the headcanon created by armies of comedian e-book film followers when the movie was initially launched, simply earlier than a sure Marvel antihero made his solo spin-off debut.
Life nonetheless works as a prequel to Venom, trustworthy
Main as much as and through its launch, an thought emerged that “Life” was secretly linked to one in every of Sony’s upcoming comedian e-book variations of that point: “Venom.” With out delving an excessive amount of into spoiler territory (sure, it is that good we do not need to spoil an eight-year-old movie), a Reddit principle proposed that “Life” was a prequel to “Venom,” which arrived the next yr. Including gasoline to this fan-driven hypothesis was the truth that the writers of the sci-fi movie additionally penned a “Venom” script that Sony handed on. “Life” even featured a crowd clip from “Spider-Man 3,” solely stirring up additional hypothesis that it might be the neatest franchise kickstarter Sony may ever hope for. It wasn’t, however Reese and Wernick themselves did love the thought.
“Swiftly, somebody’s on the market going, ‘Bing! Lightbulb!'” Wernick instructed ComicBook.com. Reese even agreed that the movie would’ve made an excellent prequel. “It could, would not it?” he stewed with the location, with Reese packing up his writing associate. “That is the symbiote! Eddie Brock’s on Earth. The symbiote’s on Earth, finds Eddie Brock. He realizes he can disguise on the within of a human.”
Positive, it may not be official, however you’ll be able to go forward and hold the headcanon that “Life” is a prequel to “Venom” in any case — and the perfect Sony “Spider-Man” universe film we by no means acquired.
