Indican Pictures Selects Oct. 30 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Ben Hall's The Man From Outer Space

Indican Pictures has tabbed Oct. 30 for the DVD debut date of writer/director Ben Hall’s sci-fi-themed, The Man From Outer Space.

We are introduced to Louis (Christopher Mychael Watson — Untouched, Loved One), who is a would-be screenwriter, with an agent-from-hell by the name of Kyle (Darren Hummel — In Critical Condition, Hatchet County).  It’s a struggle to make it, but he suddenly catches a break when he scores a “pitch” session with a high-profile film producer by the name of Harold (Todd Christian Elliott — Final Cut, The Level).

So, Hall’s film is an inside Hollywood tale about a screenwriter — like Altman’s The Player.   Well, maybe. 

We also learn that Louis is married to Alyssa (Erica Auerbach — Undercurrent) and that they have a young daughter, Makayla (Aliyah Conley — I Am Still Here).   This relationship will prove to be a complication as they have important plans for the upcoming weekend.

Nothing that Louis has in the hopper gives Harold a tingle, but being quick on his feet and desperate he pitches a tale about a marooned astronaut, which is a work in progress.   Great!   Deliver the script pronto and there could be a production deal!

This is where he enters something of a parallel universe and literally loses himself in the writing of the script about the aforementioned astronaut.   That’s a problem and Alyssa is quick to let him know that she’s not happy with him breaking promises to their child.

Filmmaker Ben Hall keeps Louis hopping between these two “worlds” … his family life and more and more as the film progresses into the alternate world Louis is creating.   

He’s on a mission from Mars, to a devastated earth!  Indeed, the early sequences are similar to that of Charlton Heston’s Planet of the Apes … ship crashes in a large body of water, survivor treks into an unforgiving wilderness and then discovers something!    Something amazing! 

Writer/director Ben Hall’s The Man From Outer Space uses the sci-fi adventures of the astronaut — also played by Christopher Mychael Watson — as a metaphor for the struggles he is confronted with in the real world.   Or, is the “real world” an escape mechanism that he has constructed to take his mind off the dangerous mission he finds himself on?  Alone, isolated and on a hostile planet!