Resumen: This article looks at the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (Derrickson 2008) as a representative example of a group of early twenty-first century science fiction films that have shown remarkable interest in transnational and global phenomena. Given the recent emphasis of the genre on these issues, this article proposes cosmopolitanism as a particularly useful theoretical framework for analyzing contemporary science fiction. The article focuses on the remake’s reliance on the figure of the alien and its destructive potential as a means of drawing attention to the global threat of climate change. The Day the Earth Stood Still presents cosmopolitanism as a perspective and way of acting that develops as a response to specific transnational challenges.Keywords: The Day the Earth Stood Still; science fiction; film; cosmopolitanism; alien; climate change Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.07 Año: 2018 Publicado en: ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 40, 2 (2018), 123-144 ISSN: 0210-6124 Factor impacto JCR: 0.075 (2018) Categ. JCR: LINGUISTICS rank: 180 / 182 = 0.989 (2018) - Q4 - T3 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.118 - Cultural Studies (Q2) - Literature and Literary Theory (Q2) - Linguistics and Language (Q2) - Language and Linguistics (Q2)