Twentieth Century Fox has announced they’re going for a Christmas 2008 release for The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of the 1951 classic. The movie was originally set for a May 9 release date, though it’s not clear whether that was 2008 or 2009.

Source: Variety

Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic.

Reeves committed over the weekend to play Klaatu, a humanoid alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar. Continue reading…