2268 – Sisu (2022)

spacetime coordinates: the Lapland War, 1944

Sisu is a 2022 Finnish historical action film written and directed by Jalmari Helander. Set in Lapland during World War II, the film follows a gold prospector who attempts to secure his gold and defend himself from a German death squad led by a brutal SS officer. The film stars Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan and Mimosa Willamo.

According to Helander, the 1982 American action film First Blood and the real-life Finnish military sniper Simo Häyhä, who fought against the Red Army, served as great inspirations for the film. (wiki)

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2201 – 2012 (2009)

spacetime coordinates: 2009 – 2012 India, Washington, D.C. the White House, China /  Tibet / the Himalayas, Los Angeles,  Yellowstone National Park, the Las Vegas Valley, the Pacific Ocean

2012 is a 2009 American science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover, Zlatko Buric and Woody Harrelson. Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows geologist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor) and novelist Jackson Curtis (Cusack) as they experience an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis and a global flood, all of which were imagined by subscribers to the hypothesis. (wiki)

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Top Gun (1986)

Top Gun is a 1986 American action film directed by Tony Scott, and written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. inspired by an article titled “Top Guns”, written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.

The film stars Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis, with Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt in supporting roles. Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. He and his radar intercept officer, Lieutenant (junior grade) Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Edwards), are given the chance to train at the US Navy’s Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California.

Upon its release, the film received mixed reviews from film critics. The film maintained its popularity over the years and earned an IMAX 3D re-release in 2013. Additionally, the soundtrack to the film has since become one of the most popular movie soundtracks to date, reaching 9× Platinum certification. The film won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for “Take My Breath Away” performed by Berlin. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. (wiki)

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski. It is the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun.

The film stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer reprising their roles from the original film, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris. It follows Maverick confronting his past while training a group of younger TOPGUN graduates, including the son of his deceased best friend, for a dangerous mission.

The film was widely praised by critics, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. (wiki)

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2117 – Crimes of the Future (2022)

Crimes of the Future is a 2022 science-fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.

Although it shares a title with Cronenberg’s 1970 film of the same name, it is not a remake as the story and concept are unrelated. It marks Cronenberg’s return to the science fiction and horror genres for the first time since eXistenZ (1999). The film was an international co-production of Canadian, French, British and Greek companies. (wiki)

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2073 – Event Horizon (1997)

timespace coordinates:  2047, the Event Horizon spaceship in a decaying orbit around Neptune

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Title Card: 2015 First permanent colony established on moon.

Title Card: 2032 Commercial mining begins on Mars.

Title Card: 2040 Deep space research vessel ‘Event Horizon’ launched to explore boundaries of Solar System. She disappears without trace beyond the eighth planet, Neptune. It is the worst space disaster on record.

Title Card: 2047 Now…

Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan and Joely Richardson. Although the film met with mostly negative reviews and a disappointing box office result at the time of its release, it amassed a considerable cult following over the years.

The Event Horizon was modeled on Notre Dame cathedral. Its long corridor resembles a church nave, and its interior is filled with cruciform shapes, columns and vaults. Also, its engines resemble rotated church towers.

The Event Horizon was named after the theoretical boundary surrounding a black hole, within which gravitational attraction is so great that nothing, not even radiation, can escape because the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. Technically, it is where the physical universe ends and physical laws no longer apply. So the ship’s name is symbolic for its journey beyond the borders of the known universe.

The script originally described the Gateway machine as a smooth and featureless black orb, 10 meters (nearly 33 feet) in diameter, suspended in midair between large, rotating mechanical arms. It also was said to contain a stable black hole within it at all times (which the ship used as a power source), as opposed to briefly creating a temporary one. Paul W.S. Anderson decided to redesign it to involve interlocking circles as a homage to the puzzle box in Hellraiser (1987), which served as an inspiration.

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Some space suits have flags showing hypothetical future political changes on Earth. Characters portrayed by British actors wear a European Union flag with 22 stars, replacing the Union flag. Sam Neill‘s character wears a modified Australian flag, with the Union flag removed from the top left-hand corner and the Aboriginal flag in its place.

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2052 – After Yang (2021)

timespace coordinates:  The story of the film is a tale about robotic “technobeings,” artificial intelligence, and cloning, all of it set in a subtly designed future that’s been scarred by environmental hubris.  // The home of the family was based on mid-century “California Modern” structures developed by Joseph Eichler. In fact, one of Eichler homes just outside of New York City in suburban Rockland County, the only three built on the East Coast, was used by production team by completely renovating the house in the process of prepping it for a tight 29-day shoot. // Costumes by Arjun Bhasin were designed to indicate a shift away from synthetics, toward sustainability and renewable materials.

After Yang is a 2021 American science fiction drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada. It stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Ritchie Coster, Sarita Choudhury, Clifton Collins Jr., and Haley Lu Richardson. The plot follows a family’s mission to repair their unresponsive robotic child. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021, and was released on March 4, 2022, by A24 and Showtime. (wiki)

Adapted from a short story by Alexander Weinstein which is “Saying Goodbye to Yang” included in the author’s 2016 collection, “Children of the New World”.

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2047 – Ted K (2021)

timespace coordinates: 1980’s -90’s Lincoln, Montana

Ted K is a 2021 American historical crime drama film directed, co-produced and co-written by Tony Stone, starring Sharlto Copley as the titular character. The film depicts the true story of Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber, and the events leading to his arrest. (wiki)

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