The new Iron Sky film posits that the Earth is hollow and home to the Vril, a race of shapeshifting immortal aliens who have been living in the planet’s core since the time of the dinosaurs. The film was inspired by the 1871 novel The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who famously inspired a long-running contest for deliberately terrible writing. As it turns out, both world leaders are lizard-people. The Coming Race picks up in the immediate aftermath of that war, with a riff on a James Bond movie theme showing the president being evacuated to the Arctic, as Vladimir Putin strips off his shirt for an acrobatic martial-arts / dance routine set to a jaunty tune promising the end of humanity. But the alliance immediately devolves into chaos, as they turn on each other to fight over the Nazis’ supply of a rare energy source, triggering global nuclear war. Eventually, all Earth’s nations fight off the lunar threat together, in a feel-good team-up. What follows is a mashup of Independence Day, Wag the Dog, and Star Wars, where the president uses the Nazis to bolster her reelection campaign.
The original Iron Sky was set in an imagined version of 2018 where astronauts, sent to the dark side of the moon by an unnamed US president bearing a striking resemblance to Sarah Palin (Stephanie Paul), discover Nazis have been hiding there since the end of World War II.
The result is Iron Sky: The Coming Race, which arrives in theaters and on-demand services on Friday, July 19th. The film failed to find the cult status it deserves, but it built a following just big and enthusiastic enough to crowdfund a sequel. 2012’s Iron Sky was an intentionally funny B-movie, lambasting science fiction tropes with the same gusto as Spaceballs or Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
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