Atli Örvarsson is an Icelandic film score composer whose credits include making music for a 2008 English-language science fiction action film based on what novel?
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Atli Örvarsson Atli Örvarsson (] ; born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, "Angels & Demons", "The Holiday", "The Eagle", "Vantage Point", "Babylon A.D.", "Thick as Thieves", "The Fourth Kind", and "Season of the Witch". Atli's most recent credits include "", "", "A Single Shot", NBC series "Chicago Fire", and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Zack Snyder Superman reinstallment "Man of Steel".
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Babylon A.D. Babylon A.D. is a 2008 English-language science fiction action film based on the novel "Babylon Babies" by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, and Gérard Depardieu. It was released on 29 August 2008 in the United States. It is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Atonement (soundtrack) Atonement: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 2007 film "Atonement", composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, French classical pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and cellist Caroline Dale. This was their second collaboration with director Joe Wright, following the soundtrack for his 2005 adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice".
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Escapement (film) Escapement (a.k.a. The Electronic Monster in the U.S.) is a 1958 black and white British science fiction film. It was based on the sci-fi novel "Escapement" by Charles Eric Maine (London, 1956). Original working titles included "Zex, the Electronic Fiend".
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Girl in Landscape Girl in Landscape is a science fiction novel by Jonathan Lethem, originally published as a 280-page hardback in 1998, by Doubleday Publishing Group. It is said to evoke the classic Western film, "The Searchers" (1956).
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Ultraviolet (novel) Ultraviolet is a novelization of the science fiction film of the same name. It was adapted by Yvonne Navarro from the screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer. The novelization provides more backstory that the film was not able to accomplish. The novel is also based on the original screenplay by Kurt Wimmer before Sony heavily edited it.
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Doors Open Doors Open is a 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin. It was his first stand-alone thriller in over 10 years.
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Skinned (novel) Skinned is a young adult sci-fi by Robin Wasserman. First published in 2008, the novel has since been renamed Frozen and is the first book in the "Cold Awakening" trilogy. After her organic body dies in a car accident, Lia's mind is scanned and downloaded into a mechanical body with no resemblance to the original. Grappling with the concepts of personal identity and what it means to be human, Lia must decide if she wants to return to her old life, or assimilate into her new one.
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Skellig (film) Skellig known in North America as Skellig: The Owl Man is a 2009 British fantasy drama film directed by Annabel Jankel and starring Tim Roth and Bill Milner. The screenplay by Irena Brignull is based on the award-winning children's novel, "Skellig" by David Almond, published in 1998.
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Laskar Pelangi Laskar Pelangi (English: "The Rainbow Troops") is a 2008 Indonesian film adapted from the popular same titled novel by Andrea Hirata. The movie follows a group of 10 schoolchildren and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra. The film is the highest grossing in Indonesian box office history and won a number of local and international awards.
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Flame &amp; Citron Flame & Citron (Danish: "Flammen & Citronen" ) is a 2008 Danish drama film co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film, a fictionalized account based on historical events, stars Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen as two Danish resistance movement fighters nicknamed Flammen and Citron, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. Attracted by the story of the pair since he was twelve, Madsen spent eight years along with co-writer Lars K. Andersen researching historical archives to produce it.
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The Hammer and the Cross The Hammer and the Cross is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison and John Holm, a pseudonym for the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey. The first in a trilogy, the book chronicles the rise of Shef, a bastard son of a Viking and an English lady. The book is alternative history set in 9th century England, where Viking raids are common.
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The Last Theorem The Last Theorem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl. It was first published in the United Kingdom by HarperVoyager in July 2008, and in the United States by Del Rey Books in August 2008. The book is about a young Sri Lankan mathematician who finds a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, while an alien invasion of Earth is in progress.
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When the Raven Flies When the Raven Flies (original Icelandic: Hrafninn flýgur (   )) is a 1984 Icelandic-Swedish adventure film written and directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. The story is set in Viking Age Iceland. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (soundtrack) Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is the official soundtrack album of the 2007 science fiction film "". It was composed by Brian Tyler. The score is completely orchestral and was released on December 11, 2007 via Varèse Sarabande label.
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Not Before Sundown Not Before Sundown (orig. fin. "Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi", United States: "Troll - a love story") is a novel written by Finnish author Johanna Sinisalo in 2000. In the same year it won a Finlandia Prize for literature. Since then it has won several awards including The James Tiptree Jr. award in 2004 for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore our understanding of gender.
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Jar City (film) Jar City (Icelandic: Mýrin – "The Bog") is a 2006 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is based on "Mýrin", a novel written by Arnaldur Indriðason and released in English as "Jar City".
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Mother of Kings Mother of Kings is a historical novel by Poul Anderson. It was first published in 2001 by Tor Books. The book is an account of the life of Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, a tenth-century queen of Norway and wife of King Eirik Bloodaxe. It is based largely on the accounts of Gunnhild's life given in "Egil's Saga" and "Heimskringla".
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V The Second Generation V: The Second Generation is a novel written by American television writer/producer Kenneth Johnson. It is an alternative sequel to his 1983 science fiction television miniseries "V", which depicted an alien invasion of Earth by an advanced race of carnivorous reptilians known as "The Visitors." The novel was released on February 5, 2008.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (score) The "2001: A Space Odyssey" score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, "."
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Jim Krusoe Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in "Antioch Review", "Denver Quarterly", "BOMB", "Iowa Review", "Field", "North American Review", "American Poetry Review", and "Santa Monica Review", which he founded in 1988. His essays and book reviews have appeared in "Manoa", the "Los Angeles Times Book Review", "The New York Times" and the "Washington Post". He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. He teaches at Santa Monica College and in the graduate writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His novel, "Iceland", was selected by the "Los Angeles Times" and the "Austin Chronicle" as one of the ten best fiction books of 2002, and it was on the "Washington Post" list of notable fiction for the same year. His novel "Girl Factory" was published in 2008 by Tin House Books followed by "Erased," which was published in 2009 and "Toward You" published in 2010, also by Tin House Books.
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Crime (novel) Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, "Filth".