Wes Anderson's Asteroid City is a charming sci-fi, coming-of-age story, and there are plenty of similar movies to watch beforehand in anticipation.
From similar coming-of-age sci-fi stories to the films that inspired Wes Anderson’s UFO caper, there are a handful of great movies to watch before Asteroid City to prepare. Set in a retrofuturistic 1955, Asteroid City revolves around an annual Junior Stargazer convention in the desert, where a group of young science prodigies make contact with alien life. Asteroid City has one of Anderson’s most star-studded casts, featuring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, and Margot Robbie.
8 Attack The Block Jodie Whittaker and an early-career John Boyega star in Attack the Block as a nurse and the gang leader who mugs her, respectively. The two reluctantly team up when their council estate in South London is swarmed by alien invaders on Guy Fawkes Night. Despite its very different setting and time period, Attack the Block is fundamentally similar to Asteroid City in that it’s another comedy about ordinary people dealing with otherworldly visitors.
6 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Steven Spielberg made his first of many encounters with extraterrestrial life in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss in his second collaboration with Spielberg as Roy Neary, whose life is forever altered after witnessing a UFO. This was one of the biggest influences in Anderson’s creation of his own alien encounter movie.
4 Nope Comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Peele offered his own take on the classic story of an alien coming to Earth in his gonzo sci-fi horror epic Nope. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as a brother and sister struggling to keep their late father’s Hollywood horse-wrangling business afloat. When their ranch is plagued by UFO appearances, they recruit an eccentric documentarian to capture it on film.
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