{"id":5086,"date":"2010-12-28T01:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T05:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:07:51","slug":"falling-skies-raising-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5086","title":{"rendered":"Falling Skies, Raising Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z12282010falling_skies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CILkO-NCL8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>this trailer for <em>Falling Skies<\/em><\/strong><\/a>?\u00a0 So, what&#8217;d you think?\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m not sold from just seeing the preview, I do like the concept&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; <strong>FALLING SKIES<\/strong> opens in the chaotic aftermath of an <strong>alien attack<\/strong> that has left <strong>most of the world completely incapacitated<\/strong>. In the <strong>six months since the initial invasion<\/strong>, the <strong>few survivors<\/strong> have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of <strong>fighting back<\/strong>. Each day is a <strong>test of survival <\/strong>as <strong>citizen soldiers <\/strong>work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and the people involved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FALLING SKIES<\/strong><\/em> is <strong>executive-produced<\/strong> by <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>, along with <strong>DreamWorks Television<\/strong> heads J<strong>ustin Falvey<\/strong> and <strong>Darryl Frank<\/strong>, <strong>Graham Yost<\/strong> (<em><strong>Justified, The Pacific<\/strong><\/em>) and screenwriter <strong>Robert Rodat. Rodat<\/strong>, who earned an <strong>Oscar\u00ae nomination<\/strong> for his screenplay for<em><strong> Saving Private Ryan<\/strong><\/em>, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with <strong>Spielberg<\/strong>. <strong>Mark Verheiden<\/strong> (<em><strong>Heroes, Battlestar Galactica<\/strong><\/em>) and <strong>Greg Beeman<\/strong> (<em><strong>Heroes, Smallville<\/strong><\/em>) are <strong>co-executive producers<\/strong>. The pilot was directed by<strong> Carl Franklin <\/strong>(<em><strong>One False Move, Out of Time<\/strong><\/em>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The series stars: <strong>Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Drew Roy,<\/strong> and <strong>Colin Cunningham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this trailer for Falling Skies?\u00a0 So, what&#8217;d you think?\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m not sold from just seeing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26327,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions\/26327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}