Chris Miller lightens the mood with a '60s sci-fi film poster for The Omicron Variant
Miller continues his directorial reputation of successfully adapting dubious IPs
Things are, once again, looking not-all-that-great when it comes to getting to the other side of this pandemic—yet another COVID-19 mutation is spreading globally, just on the heels of society trudging our way through the Delta variant. It’s a scary, uncertain time (when is it it not these days?), and there remain a lot of unknowns about just how the next few months will play out. There is at least one thing we all know for sure, though: “The Omicron Variant” sounds like the name of a schlocky retro sci-fi flick that you’d find in an episode of MST3K.
Chris Miller, one half of the Lord-Miller dynamic directorial duo, certainly thinks so, too, and recently even photoshopped a vintage movie poster mock-up worthy of the nonexistent classic.
Miller tweeted his take on The Omicron Variant over the weekend, presumably during some post-Thanksgiving down time, and it certainly nails the retro-futuristic nail on the head. “What is it? How dangerous will it be?” reads the faux-film tagline, which really could be everyone’s fallback motto right now.