Warner Bros just released this wicked new TV spot for the upcoming film “Splice” from producer Guillermo Del Toro (The Hobbit, Hellboy) by director Vincenzo Natali (High Rise, Cypher) and starring Adrien Brody (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Sarah Polley (Mr. Nobody).
Synopsis: Clive and Elsa are young, brilliant and ambitious. The new animal species they engineered have made them rebel superstars of the scientific world. In secret, they introduce human DNA into the experiment. The result is something that is greater than the sum of its parts: a female animal-human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. They think they may have created the perfect organisim, until she makes a final shocking metamorphosis that could destroy them … and the rest of humanity.
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I feel nitpicky today, so let me remark that there is no “evolutionary ladder” in biology. Evolution is not an upward movement, nor is it a constant progression toward improvement or perfection. The “best” evolved organisms are those that procreate most efficiently in their current environment. A new organism may possess high aggression and an exceptional predatory capability, but if it draws too much attention of rivals (=humans with guns), it will be killed off sooner or later and therefore be an evolutionary dead end, a failure. Since I don’t know what sort of organism the one in this movie is, I wont go on speculating.