‘Don’t Look Up’ and ‘Soylent Green’: Hollywood keeps telling similar stories about the end of the world The climate disaster movie isn’t new. It also hasn’t changed that much.

But "Soylent Green," released in 1973 and based on a novel by Harry Harrison, was even more eerily prescient. It's set in the then-far-off future of 2022.

Soylent Green might be people, but the surprise ending isn't the most horrific part of this classic sci-fi film.

Instead, Soylent Green is being produced from the processed bodies of the deceased. Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in a scene from the 1973 movie "Soylent Green." (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...

'Soylent Green,' the classic Charlton Heston movie from 1973, was set in the far-off year 2022. How does the real version measure up?