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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film [4] directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. [5] Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Bill Nighy as Thomas Jerome Newton. Image via Showtime. The deep well of talent on display in The Man Who Fell to Earth is rounded out by the inclusion of Bill Nighy as Thomas Jerome Newton, the ...
- Alex Falls
Nov 26, 2018 · In spite of the plight of Newton’s home planet, The Man Who fell to Earth does not paint a dystopian future, like Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, Silent Running ...
Thomas Jerome Newton, the extraterrestrial protagonist in “The Man Who Fell to Earth” by Walter Tevis, can be interpreted as an allegory for the human experience of isolation and longing for connection. Newton’s inability to find a way to save his home planet from drought and his subsequent descent into alcoholism and despair can be seen as a commentary on the human condition of ...
May 15, 2022 · Watch actor Bill Nighy discuss his role as Thomas Jerome Newton in Showtime's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" ... Back in 1976 when Bowie was playing the role, no one would've envisioned that ...
- Melanie Mcfarland
Jan 26, 2022 · Like the film before it, Titan’s The Man Who Fell to Earth will tell the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien with Bowie’s signature heterochromatic eyes who comes to Earth on a ...
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Oct 8, 2016 · Bowie, like his alien alter-ego Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976), saw himself as a stranger in a strange land from the back of a limousine travelling ...
