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Watch: Laurence Fishburne Stars in 'The Colony' Ice Age Sci-Fi Film

by Alex Billington
March 19, 2013

"You're gonna need every bullet." Alliance Films and eOne Films have debuted the very first trailer for Jeff Renfroe's The Colony, an ice age sci-fi thriller featuring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton. Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature. As much as I wanted to be looking forward to this, the visual effects and sets seem a but under-budgeted and overall this doesn't seem like anything we haven't seen before. The only redeeming factor is we get to see Fishburne and Paxton bantering, which might make this worthwhile.

Watch the first international trailer for Jeff Renfroe's The Colony, found on YouTube (via ComingSoon):

Set during the next ice age, an outpost of colonists struggle to survive below the world's frozen surface. Short on supplies, and plagued by illness and internal conflict, the colonists suspect the worst when they mysteriously lose contact with their only other known settlement. Kevin Zegers, Charlotte Sullivan co-star.

The Colony is directed by American filmmaker Jeff Renfroe, of the films Civic Duty and One Point O. The screenplay is by Renfroe, Patrick Tarr and Pascal Trottier. The first film shot in the former NORAD base 60 stories underground. The Colony will be out in Canada in April, but no US date yet. For more see Facebook.

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http://bytemypanda.mp/ SleepingPanda

Looks great.
Charles Xavier

Hey, it's that kid from Air Bud!
Jeff Metzger

I was interested right up until I realized this was a zombie movie.
- bozo connors
  
  Yeah... maybe zombies. Something like them anyway. Sadly as Alex mentioned, will probably see this just for Paxton & Fishy.
- Cody W
  
  Looked like more of some sort of evolved cannibal than actual walking dead but I see what you mean.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000784195062 Ian Pullens
  
  EXACTLY WHAT I AS GOING TO SAY JEFF. I was pumped until the zombies. Pass.
- AJ
  
  Same here.
Linkfx

I didn't think the vfx looked that bad. Maybe I should watch it in HD haha. I'll watch this...if it comes out on a weekend where there is nothing better to see.
http://www.yepi8.org/ yepi8

I still have not seen this movie, and I would look in the future
hal

i am from canada, and the weather of the future looks like just any regular winter day to me
DAVIDPD

DIG.
- grimjob
  
  Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7YGEVuJ4mM Carpola

Looks alright. Bit daft with the savages, I reckon they'd die like every other human is exposed to the cold.
l.21

Big horns in the trailer. Obviously a must see.
Tester

Im a sucker for these kinds of movies so I will probably catch it DVD.. For some reason I kept thinking this looked just like Aliens 3, which is not good since Ive been trying to remove any memory of that movie from my brain for years Good to see Billy back in action, Fishy is always good
- c99606
  
  Alien 3 is still better than Prometheus.At least the Extended Cut.
ff

Huh not bad!
grimjob

Hell yes, looks like a damn good time at the movies.
hi hello

BWAAAAM!!! BWAAAAM!!!! BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!! Looks pretty crappy honestly. Started off good then went lame quickly.
John Carp

Pretty neat trailer...has a kind of "THE THING" vibe to it
c99606

Good thing: it's SF need more of those,especially original stories(which this isn't exactly but o.k. ). Bad:voice over,speed up slow down camera movement like in MTV videos when they were still making those back in the day,a crew under a siege of zombie like creatures an enemy the viewer does not have to sympathize with...meh...maybe I'll pirate it when available...
TTumMM

This actually reminds me of Battle Angel Alita Last Order book 8-9 about how the world became like in Battle Angel Alita but instead of the zombies, it's cognites (vampire) who battling through mutants(think of Silent hill mutants not X-men ones) and some humans that try to kill them just because they're vampire. The human colony itself looks exactly like in that comic.
Guest

I believe Mr. Renfroe is a dual citizen. He was born in Seattle, but he was raised in Victoria, BC. The film was a Canadian production. The movie's IMDb listing states this. And those aren't "zombies," folks. They're hungry cannibals. I think a line in the trailer makes this pretty clear...