Or is trying to, anyway, the folks at Defamer report. This strikes me as foolish. I'm all for using deeply-felt science fiction as a way to explore political issues. But it would be pretty sad--and even more importantly, would produce some pretty bad movies--if finding a social issue to wrap your story around became the hot new trend in sci-fi movie making. For an allegory like District 9 to work, the writer, director, and producers better be pretty invested in and knowledgeable about the political issue they're taking on. D9 worked, I thought, not simply because apartheid and its aftermaths were a fresh issue for Western audiences, but because the movie got the rhythms of South African protest down right, because the characters on screen expressed some of the diversity of South Africa. They made the issue work because they knew the issue, and knew the multiplicity of ways in which people cared about it, and because they had their own, deeply grounded point of view about it. Now, maybe Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman are super-invested in green jobs, or world government, or anyone of a number of old-school Star Trek-style political issues, and maybe they'll do a great job of crafting a metaphor. But if they've gone issue-shopping in the first place, I kind of doubt it. I don't really think the world needs more "issue" movies. I think it needs more good movies of all persuasions.
That said, I would definitely watch this:
Family Guy: Peter's stupid conservative neighbors tell him that their dog Brian was not really born in America, but in Kenya, and they claim to have the kennel papers to prove it. If what they say is true, then Peter must put his dog down and then burn him in the public square while walking counterclockwise around the flames to prevent the spirits of evil from invading the country. He doesn't know who to believe.Anything would be an improvement over Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. ::Shudders::