Outland (1981)
Directed by Peter Hyams
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
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What critics compared Outland to
In a director's statement, he's acknowledged his debt to such cerebral sci-fi classics as Silent Running (1971), Solaris (1972), Outland (1981), and BladeRunner (1982).
And Sam's being a lunar miner is a homage to the 1981 sci-fi film Outland , where Sean Connery blows the whistle on a corrupt mining manager on one of Jupiter's moons.
The lawlessness of outer space hearkens back to the Wild West — in this sense, the film brings to mind Peter Hyams’ Outland , the High Noon variation starring Sean Connery.
Scripted by Austin, Texas-born newcomer Beau Thorne and set in a stylized film noir New York City, the film is a mashup of “Sin City” (2005), “The Crow” (1994), “The Matrix” (1999) and “Outland” (1981), featuring canned dialogue and tough-guy posturing by its star Mark Wahlberg.
…movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.”