Listen to our complete interview with John Joseph Adams, Maggie Shen King, and Carrie Vaughn in Episode 279 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “It’s like they saw Gattaca and they really liked it, and they wanted to make a movie like that, but they didn’t really learn why it was good.” “The movie kept reminding me of Gattaca, but it’s like it didn’t learn anything from Gattaca,” he says. Science fiction editor John Joseph Adams had high hopes for What Happened to Monday, but says that in the end it just didn’t measure up to stronger sci-fi films like Gattaca. “A lot of the script was so intelligent, and then so much of the rest of it was so dumb, I was wondering if there were different, competing people or powers fighting over what it should be,” says Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley. It’s a promising setup that unfortunately never pays off. In order to skirt the law, the septuplets (all played by Noomi Rapace) pretend to be one person, with each of them venturing outside only one day a week. What Happened to Monday is set in a future in which a one-child policy is strictly enforced. “It’s just using it as an excuse to do all these very typical action movie things.” “It’s not actually dealing with the issue,” she says. Author Carrie Vaughn was interested to see a new take on the theme, but was disappointed that the movie doesn’t really explore any big ideas. Overpopulation has been a popular theme in science fiction for decades, from the movie Soylent Green, based on the Harry Harrison novel Make Room! Make Room! to the Star Trek episode “The Mark of Gideon.” And just this summer Netflix released What Happened to Monday, a dystopian sci-fi movie about a set of septuplets that must escape a population-controlling government.
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