Tag Archives: Richard Fleischer

Dystopian Future: Soylent Green

Computing Forever reviews the sci-fi classic Soylent Green, a 1973 picture starring Charlton Heston. Richard Fleischer directed from a screenplay by Stanley R. Greenberg, adapting the Harry Harrison novel Make Room! Make Room!

This prophetic work envisions a nightmarish future about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles upon the truth. That’s a truth that’s truly dystopian, yet entirely imaginable in the post-Jeffrey Epstein era.

“Goy” Lent Green

In a video titled “Goy Lent Green…What’s Eating Us?,” Enter the Stars Reloaded revisits the 1973 sci-fi film Soylent Green, which has proven so prophetic. The film starred Chalton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, and was directed by Richard Fleischer, who also made Fantastic Voyage and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The plot concerned human cannibalism, the meat compacted into a blue-green algae-like food stuffing called soylent green.