Although The Mercury Men is a clear throwback to the old cliffhanger serials of the 1930's and the sci-fi B movies of the 1950's, I've always tried to steer clear from basing TOO much of our branding on the cheesy, over-the-stop advertising those genre's employed.  This is why our trailer doesn't have titles flying at you that simply read "DANGER" or a nasaly-voiced announcer belting out "Will our heroes survive the attack of The Mercury Men?"  While I love those classic film elements, and always enjoy seeing a modern project recreate them, I didn't want The Mercury Men to strictly become an homage to old cinema.  There has been one area however, which I've always thought it would be insincere for us to stray from: the posters.  We've paid tribute to the great Saul Bass with our teaser poster and I thought it only fitting that we also offer our version of the classic sci-fi posters, like you might have seen at a 1950's drive-in.

It's a slightly toned-down version of the old retro posters, since they typically filled every square inch of space allowed.  Classic posters also typically used dozens of colors, even though the films themselves were black and white.  I chose a duo-tone approach which more accurately portrays the film.  You'll may also notice the title font change.  It's not the font we use in our advertising, or in the episodes themselves, but it was too good a fit for this single poster and even Star Wars had multiple logos during it's first release.  (An extra bit of trivia, the font used on the poster ["CCBattleScared"], was also used for the original Mercury Men short film that inspired by the series.)

UPDATE: Now you can get this poster on a magnet!

You can check out our entire line of posters HERE.