Teaser for illustrated sci-fi war film Black Sky, from artist Ben Templesmith

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Here’s a brief but enticing trailer for an animated flick that’s news to me, BLACK SKY. Called “an illustrated film”, it comes from Ben Templesmith (who did the artwork for Steve Niles’ “30 Days of Night”) and director Matt Pizzolo, who helmed GODKILER.

Though no official synopsis is available yet, it’s obvious that BLACK SKY concerns soldiers in a post-apocalyptic future battling some kind of monstrous space squid. Yes, I’m for real; in fact, at Comic-Con they were pushing the movie as “a dark war-movie-style adventure described as Band of Brothers vs Cthulhu”. I’m sure we can all get on board with that.

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