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Did you know I like Vikings?

There’s a new movie coming out in 2008 about Vikings. About Vikings and aliens. How freaking cool is that? It’s called Outlander. The 1990s-looking website offers a scintillating synopsis.

A age old battle rages amongst the stars. Kainan’s people have been fighting the Moorwen, fierce animal-like creatures for dominance. When his space craft crashes into the fjords of ancient Norway it’s with dismay that Kainan realizes that he wasn’t the only survivor. A second passenger, a Moorwen also emerges from the wreckage and into the time of the Vikings, intent on causing harm to those it perceives have wronged it. As the Moorwen kills everything in its path, Kainan has to try and get the feuding tribes to work together long enough to destroy the beast before it destroys them all.

I pretty much fantasize night and day about harnessing the raw power of the Viking hordes and unleashing it upon my interstellar foes, so I’m definitely gonna see this movie about 14 times in theaters. Then I’ll buy the special edition DVD (and Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) that ships with prop toenails from the pre-production alien mannequin.

There’s also a sweet trailer that’s really dark and doesn’t really show any footage, yet still made me fidget around in my chair and knock stuff off my desk in idioglottic rapture.

I like how the demon/alien is described in hyperbolic terms as the utmost evil because he sorta maybe kinda might hurt the Vikings. Now that’s good writing right there.

I’m going to walk around for months now, gutturally muttering, “…that fell… from the stars.”