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Liam O’Donnell


There can’t be many people who thought after watching The Brother Strause’s Skyline in 2000 that it would be the first instalment of one of the best sci-fi trilogies of the 21st century. It was an inauspicious opening, but when co-writer and producer Liam O’Donnell made the surprisingly good sequel Beyond Skyline in 2017, things …

The large majority of sequels tend to be pale imitations of the original. Sometimes, they equal it in terms of accomplishment without managing to really explore any new ground (John Wick, Guardians of the Galaxy). Others, such as Starship Troopers, Tremors and From Dusk Till Dawn, are just cheap knock-offs in a thinly-veiled attempt to …