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spacetime coordinates: near future Canada
Swan Song is a 2021 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Benjamin Cleary and produced by Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Bourke and Jonathan King. Set in the near future, Ali portrays a husband and father who is diagnosed with terminal illness but is given a new solution: to replace himself with a clone. The film also stars Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, Glenn Close and Adam Beach. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 20th-century (~50’s – 60’s) French city Ennui-sur-Blasé
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American anthology comedy film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. The film features a large ensemble cast, and follows three different storylines as the French foreign bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper creates its final issue.
The first segment, “The Concrete Masterpiece”, follows an incarcerated and unstable artist, and stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, and Léa Seydoux. The second, “Revisions to a Manifesto”, is inspired by the May 68 student protests, and stars Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, and Lyna Khoudri. “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” features Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, and Stephen Park, and follows the kidnapping of a police commisioner’s son. Bill Murray also stars as Arthur Howitzer Jr., the paper’s editor, while Owen Wilson appears in a short segment that introduces the film’s fictional setting of Ennui-sur-Blasé. (wiki)
During the ending credits some covers of The French Dispatch through its history are shown. They were created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez and were loosely inspired in The New Yorker’s covers.
spacetime coordinates: 2020. a night of party-hopping across LA.
Night Teeth is a 2021 American vampire thriller film directed by Adam Randall. It stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raul Castillo, Megan Fox, and Alfie Allen. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 1996 > 2024 San Francisco
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a 2021 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom, it is the second film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and the sequel to Venom (2018). The film is directed by Andy Serkis from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, based on a story she wrote with Tom Hardy who stars as Eddie Brock / Venom alongside Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and Woody Harrelson.
In the film, Brock struggles to adjust to life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, while serial killer Cletus Kasady (Harrelson) escapes from prison after becoming the host of Carnage, a chaotic spawn of Venom. The film was primarily inspired by the comic book story arc “Maximum Carnage” (1993) and the 1994 Spider-Man animated series story arc The Venom Saga (1996).
In August 2018, Hardy confirmed that he was signed on to star in a third Venom film. In September 2021, Hardy stated that he was “deeply invested” in the Venom films, while acknowledging that the future may include elements of the multiverse. Serkis also stated that Spider-Man will eventually cross over with the Venom films, though he believed there were additional films that needed to take place first, and that he would like to return as director on a sequel, while that other supervillain residents of Ravencroft may factor into additional films. Hardy and Serkis also expressed interest in featuring the symbiote dragon Grendel in the third Venom film. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: London – 2010’s << the Swinging Sixties
Last Night in Soho is a 2021 British psychological horror film directed and co-written by Edgar Wright. The film stars Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Michael Ajao, Terence Stamp and Diana Rigg. It marks the final film appearances of Rigg and Margaret Nolan, who both died in 2020. The film is dedicated to the memory of Rigg. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 1995 – 1999 Memphis, Tennessee > Uninhabited Island in the South Pacific
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. (wiki)
Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.
Army of Thieves is a 2021 heist film directed by Matthias Schweighöfer from a screenplay by Shay Hatten, based on a story he wrote with Zack Snyder. A prequel to Army of the Dead, it is the second installment in the Army of the Dead franchise; the film stars Schweighöfer, who reprises his role as Ludwig Dieter, alongside a supporting cast that includes Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Jonathan Cohen, and Peter Simonischek. (wiki)
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