Rollerball 1975

This is Robert Peak’s poster for the film Rollerball. It’s a bit before my time, but I can definitely get a handle on this image. It’s an illustration, not a painting, but he paints with the image, y'know? Think about the dark swathes, the way the fist surges out, all spikes and aggression! I imagine him at the drawing board, thinking about how to convey a sense of foreboding and dystopian menace. His dark outlines are a real mood, as if something’s emerging out of nothing. I’m wondering if it would be like that to design a movie poster. The film hasn’t been released, so you have no idea what it’s like. You work with a vague idea, a feeling, some visual cues, and then you put it into the world. Then everyone else fills in the blanks.