Fantastic idea, and I like the idea of promoting War Bonds in the fictional paper.

I don't think a uniform is entirely necessary, just an outfit from the time period would be enough to grab people's attention.

By far, one of the best ideas, though you need to be really careful with this so that A) anyone won't get arrested B) you or the movie won't be flagged as pro-Nazi. However, if you manage to steer around those rocks this should create nice buzz for the movie.

You need to make really clear to the viewer that, from the first words, it's obvious that it's not pro-Nazi, since single minded persons will only glance the thing and judge it as such. The problem with this is that it only takes couple of these persons, in right places, to get the word going and after that I fear you'll be having hard time to get anyone interested.

This can be coupled with the war bond idea, as the leaflet should contain some ads, so why not one promoting the war bonds?

This one has my vote! definately you have to print a small brochure about the film disguised as an 1940´s newspaper. Abit similar marketing that was used with Metal Gear Solid 4.

A fine idea indeed! Just be careful, the costumes must NOT be Scouting uniforms or the strong Scouting Associations will definitely sue. Hitler Jugend is understandably something they do not wish to be identified with... (They were forced to stop functioning and start being Hitler Youth back then, though, so it could be only natural now, but I doubt their sense of humour would stretch far enough.)

So, do it a bit harder way and get the uniforms from elsewhere. Scouting uniforms in different countries differ a lot and without the Scouting badges some of them could easily be used, without the bad connotations in Cannes. Maybe they should have a slight "futurized" look in them, together with the easily identifiable design? That would be a nice touch, yes?

I really love it! I think it is one of the best ones I have heard so far

Making it a four page tabloid with a large enough a print (say, 20 000?) and further making it available on the net you could easily pass everyone all the information on Iron Sky you like. Plus those funny looking space nazis wandering everywhere in the crowd passing the news to everyone interested should certainly catch everyones attention. Just make sure you hire a legion of them in advance.

Hey, do use this idea together with the one I just suggested at the main Star Wreck site! I suggested making a modernized version of the old "Der Stürmer" newspaper of the nazis, with the title and texts changed appropriately to reflect the space time, but with an obvious resemblance to the original. You just need to be careful you make it clear you aren't pro-nazi ideology. If you do it correct, that may quite possibly make HUGE publicity even!

http://forum.starwreck.com/viewtopic.php?p=45902#45902

This is a marvellous idea! I think newspaper boys passing news leaflets about nazis to people would be a funny and effective promotion idea.

Really, Iron Sky a comedy? The concept would lend itself to being serious.

I might agree Matti, but Iron Sky is a comedy right? Why not have a menacing evil hot babe to match wits against? Or maybe part of her final solution is a wrestling match (you vs. her) ... or just something absurd like that.

:)

Yeah girls in uniforms are always hot, but they might also give the movie (if possible) a quite cheesy first appearance. Also i dont think Iron Sky wants to go with comparisons to the Grindhouse movie :D

Brendan wrote:
"If you could manage to get yourself arrested too then newspapers and TV could run with it!!! No such thing as bad publicity"

I think the crew has expressed that they don't want that kind of publicity and I agree it is very risky.

But your suggestion made me think that the only guy who could actually pull this of as a "humor"-stunt is actually Samuli Torssonen. I can imagine him giving an interview in his "funny character" as seen in the dailies. There he would be sitting in talk shows answering to all these serious questions:

"I was just trying to warn you about the nazis in the moon" and "well, the projector in Cannes was the obvious choice. How else could you tell a message for millions of people. Using the internet? Yeah right."

But back to the real world. A lot people today still have strong emotional memories when it comes to nazis. I personally don't but I surely can understand and feel for those who have.

When people have strong emotions of something, the message gets misunderstood easily. The wrong message also spreads fast and the spreading is more difficult to stop and get the right message through because the "right" message usually is not so provoking.

So unless you have a provoking "right" message to fight back the "wrong" message, don't do that. When I think of it, I must admit nazis in the moon is infact quite good "right" message :-)

You know, I'm going to jump on this idea but spin it in a unique way...

For about 2,000 dollars, you can get about $20,000 tri-fold brochures.

Create a simple flyer on surviving a terrorist invasion - make it like the old fifties duck and cover videos, but style it up for 2018. What kind of "how to avoid a terrorist attack" brochure would your government make?

I think you may already know this, but the movie "Der Untergang" has extremely authentic voice acting on Hitlers part due to a unique recording of his and Mannerheims conversation in 1942. Since the tapes are available for scientific study, it may be possible to hunt a copy down for some voice manipulation and insertion into the movie.

I am fluent in spoken and written German.

We've just got some great evidence:
http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

OMG!

This is great! there should definately be some home videos of ufos with nazi symbols on it. "SS"

Andrew Dougherty, you gave me an even wilder idea, I think.

What if there "might" be such sounds in the background in some spots end of movie completely in random? I mean, sometimes watching the movie there would be nothing, but sometimes there could occur something "UFO" in completely unexpectable surroundings so, that nobody could ever repeat the same. With the modern digital movie technology such should be perfectly possible.

I'll open a new shot about this somewhere in more correct place.

What a splendid idea.

The great ofcourse is that other youtubers will start responding to the video. We could have a few plants who try to stir up conflict, other people who get interested and research etc.

Well, I'm a paranoid schizophrenic who's worked for organizations that not even their own members can prove exist, but this is all very fun. What about this: near the end of the film, certain sounds are added that clearly don't syncronize with the film, a kind of you know that thing in the 30's where people thought orsen well's was telling the truth kind of thing. Some people with their fancy surround sound set ups could be made to think that something was actually going on. You would have to design the sounds so that there was no way to visually verify their veracity. Lastly, it would have to be brief enough that they couldn't adjust their sound. Also, they may try rewinding to make sure it was a fake, I don't know what counter measures could be added there. Silly idea but just a thought.

BTW: All the people abducted by UFOs were actually taken to the moonbase to work for the nazis. There's no such thing as extra-terrestials. They were all nazis from the beginning.

Great evidence! I'll come up with some more in the future, but we need to know one thing first. The marketing has to be inline with the movie...

Do the earthlings (even the highest security guys at FBI/NASA/Government) in Iron Sky script know that Nazis went to moon in 1945 or not?

Is there a conspiracy to hide the fact or is the idea of Nazis on the Moon just so crazy that no body here on earth believes that?

I was thinking about what kind of evidence you could have for Nazis actually being on the moon right now:

1) A leaked photo from NASA taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing what appears to be an observatory right on the edge of the dark side of the moon (the nazis must have some way to observe earth after all). I know that Hubble can only resolve features about 280 feet across but few normal people do so this could be quite plausible and look extremely cool. The photo could be slightly ambiguous but clearly show some sort of large non-natural formation with a swastika showing on it.

2) Leaked top secret NASA / DOD documents hinting at a possible alternative motive behind the Bush administrations current plan to go to the moon.

3) News story about a group of Neo-Nazi rocketry hobbyists getting arrested for trying to launch a far too large "toy" rocket. Subsequent investigations reveal their objective to have been delivering a payload of maps (military and civilian) as well as tech gadgets (GPS recievers, pre paid cell phones etc) into orbit around the moon.

Wow. Would NOT want to run into that tin foil dude in a dark alley.
Great idea guys, everybody loves a good conspiracy theory. When do you think the timing would be right for this sort of thing?

Ricky Grove wrote:
"I'll volunteer to be the actor, if I'm not too old looking to do it. Although if we use the aluminum foil idea, it probably won't make a difference."

I think you look *just the perfect man* to start the job! These paranoid guys I've found are usually young guys but I think your age gives this thing the sort of realism I think is very different and hopefully makes this more belivable and makes it stand out.

It's more about the voice and mimics when your head is covered.

Should there be also somekind of drama plan to all of this (like in Improv anywhere)? Nobody cares to watch the clips if their content doesn't somehow escalate when moving towards the premiere of Iron Sky.

The last question to be answered could be "when are the nazis attacking" and the anse "Well, my sources indicate that the nazis are attacking this friday at 4 p.m. first at Russian movie theaters" but that can lead to another theme of "what will you be doing when they attack" etc.

It could also be that because we have so many people and ideas here it will spontaniously live its life and no plan is necessary.

You guys are on fire! Get it going, right now!

Getting a bunch of people from all over the world to do this sort of a thing would be the first step into a really daring involvement by the community. And it could be a key to a media frenzy. So far, WreckAMovie has lacked a spark. This could be it.

I bet you'll get the attention of the production team once they wake up from their teaser deadline sleep deprivation disorder (a rare disease rarely encountered out of its original Star Wreck environment)..

I propose we (Iron Sky team and the fans) get this planned and organized properly. It is a daring push, one that must be timed and executed right, with extremely virally high rewards if it succeeds.

Outstanding idea. I'll volunteer to be the actor, if I'm not too old looking to do it. Although if we use the aluminum foil idea, it probably won't make a difference. I have decent DV camera (also a pixel camera which might make the video look particularly strange) and experience in editing. I can improvise given direction or work off of prepared scripts.

I love the idea of mixing movie marketing propaganda into existing conspiracy theorist sites, and I love even more the idea of the actor pretending to be a conspiracy theorist running around the film festival handing things out. It might even be nice to have a very public scene where several men in sunglasses, black leather trench coats and jack boots march out of a black car, pretend to inject the man with something that puts him right out, and take him into the car. Then they calmly drive away. In the back windshield of the car have the "Iron Sky" logo, with the website address stretching across the back of the car perhaps.

And I think some guys could cover their heads in aluminum foil and wear turtlenecks in Cannes also. That would be cheap, wouldn't it?

Man, I just love this board! It's very rewarding to bring up ideas and then someone continues as you did just now John. That was exactly what I wanted to see.

John wrote:
"what if a number of us all made our own youtube videos, but ALL of us making videos always covered our heads in aluminum foil, and always wore a black turtleneck."

That would be awesome. I hate the word-monster LOL but now I actually did.

Excellent idea dude!

How about creating the evidence as a Task using WAM-people to produce / print some kind of videos and pictures around the world? The paranoid guy would then go like: "I just recieved very good video evidence from Finland that proves my theory that Nazis are infact alive and well in the moon. Take a look at this video/picture."

This "evidence" could also be produced by Energia them selves but we WAM guys could add the realism by using different cameras and different locations. Project would include:

1. Energia produces some printable "evidence" that Nazis are in the moon
2. WAM people print out this "evidence" at home/work
3. WAM people record a video / take pictures of this evidence at their current location (at known landmarks or local elements etc)
4. WAM people upload the videos / pictures to WAM or Youtube
5. The paranoid actor makes Videoblogs talking about this evidence

The quality of the videos could be very crappy like it sometimes is when filming videos with digital photocams. It doesn't matter. Could it work? How much time do we have? How does this tie-in to Cannes? Why so many questions? When is Iron Sky demo out?

Brilliant idea. Really original.

Nice, i like it :)

Giant Crop Swastikas would be the most awesome visual ever. That's your teaser poster right there...

In the movies, it's always some sexy French woman that's hiding the resistance fighters....hope that helps. :)

Of course. Now I found it. It was called "Allo! Allo!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!

Wikipedia has some nice pictures and background info on French Resistance Movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_during_World_War_II

Strangely enough, I came up with the same idea at work today before having gone through all the comments here. I think, "THE END IS NIGH" works on the front of the sandwich board and "IRON SKY" for the back. (You beat me by a day!) But instead of plains-clothed people, I'd say get a whole bunch of folks and dress them up in homeless/vagrant outfits that would appear typical of anyone from the 1940's. (Is that possible to do without losing the theme, though?)

It'd also be great if the doomsayers could pass out various, poorly photocopied propaganda movie flyers, too. The flyers would be cryptic, but contain enough information about the film to raise awareness.