2018 was a remarkable year for cli-fi, both for the number and variety of fictional films that addressed climate change.
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| Eight theatrical releases in some way in 2018 - and none was a disaster movie and the trend looks set to continue in 2019. |
Global warming played a leading role in a comedy and in an art-house social drama. It played a supporting role in a superhero flick. And it could be glimpsed in cameos in two alien-creature features and in a holiday comic book blockbuster. Allusions to climate change were also seen, by some viewers, in two other films. That’s a record-breaking eight theatrical releases, none of which was a disaster-film (think Into the Storm), apocalypse (The Day After Tomorrow) or dystopia (Mad Max: Fury Road). In 2018, cli-fi finally broke free of its early type-casting.
Read the story from Yale Climate Connections by Michael Svoboda - “Superheroes and aliens: Climate change in the movies in 2018 - with a preview of 2019.”
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