'Inhabited Island' Release Plans

Ok so first of all watch this trailer



That was the Trailer for Russia's most expensive film ever Inhabited Island or Obitaemyy Ostrov to be factual. The film cost $40 million to make and looks like an homage to almost every single dystopic sci-fi vision ever put on screen just from the trailer i see Metropolis, Blade Runner, 1984 plus elements of cyber, steam, clockpunk (there are probably thousands more.) There have been some incredible filmmakers coming out of Russia latley with Timur Bekmambetov and his visually explosive Nightwatch & Daywatch plus his highly successful, ridiculous action packed and extremely fun American debut Wanted. Last year the lucky ones got to see Sergei Bodrov's amazing first part of a Ghengis Khan trilogy Mongol, which was nominated for best foreign film at last years Oscars. Anyway back to the point, The Inhabited Island is directed by Fyodor Bondarchuck (who directed the 2005 war drama 9th Company about Soviet sodiers in Afghanistan) and is based on the novel Prisoners of Power (English title) by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Variety* got the news that the films are going to be released as two separate parts for it's international release, just like it's being given for it'd domestic release which has already begun. Inhabited Island Part One has already made $23 million when it was released last month across Russia.
This film could either be brilliant or surprisingly average, the trailers very intriguing (especially as i have no idea whats going on) but the constant visual reminders of past Masterpieces suggest originality may be minimal, anyway I think it still deserves a watch.

What do you think?


(On a side note the sequel to Mongol with the proposed title The Great Khan is currently in pre- production and scheduled for a 2010 release!)
*I doubt Variety did get the news but they don't claim their sources, so f__k em.