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timespace coordinates: alternate 2008 London
Possessor, known in the United States as Possessor: Uncut, is a 2020 science fiction horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the film stars Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. (wiki)
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timespace coordinates: 1970’s – 1980’s Britain
Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime film directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film stars Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson.
Bronson told The Times “I honestly believe nobody on the planet could play me as Tom did. He is more like me than I am”, (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually moving train consisting of 1001 carriages that circles the globe 2.7 revolutions per year (133 days to complete a revolution). Built by billionaire Wilford, the train is rigidly separated by class, with passengers caught up in a revolutionary struggle against the strictly imposed social hierarchy and unbalanced allocation of limited resources.
Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television drama series that premiered on TNT on May 17, 2020. It is based on both the 2013 South Korean–Czech film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, from which the film was adapted, by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette.
A reboot of the film’s continuity, the series questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival. Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly star alongside Mickey Sumner, Annalise Basso, Sasha Frolova, Alison Wright, Benjamin Haigh, Roberto Urbina, Katie McGuinness, Susan Park, Lena Hall, Sheila Vand, Sam Otto, Iddo Goldberg, and Jaylin Fletcher. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1955 > early 1980s Mercer, Ohio. Mercer is home to the Mercer Center for Experimental Physics, an underground facility known as the Loop. It is there where researchers attempt to “make the impossible possible”.
Tales from the Loop is an American science fiction drama web television series based on the art book of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (536). The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 3, 2020. All eight episodes of the first season were released simultaneously. (wiki)
David Baird from the B.C. Catholic characterizes the series as “a set of loosely interrelated meditations upon ephemerality, the impact of technology, and human vulnerability infused with a mild science fiction savour” and considers it “a beguiling fusion of forward-looking nostalgia”.
timespace coordinates: California, 7 years after the Monsterpocalypse
“A daffily lightweight throwback to the teen action-adventures of the ’80s and ’90s.” (variety)
“There’s a kicky spirit to the whole production and the effects are first-rate.” (Mercury News)
Love and Monsters is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic adventure comedy directed by Michael Matthews, with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen serving as producers. The film stars Dylan O’Brien, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt and Jessica Henwick. It was released by Paramount Pictures under its Paramount Players and MTV Films labels via video on demand on October 16, 2020. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1989 Canada / Thailand, Bang Kwang – เรือนจำกลางบางขวาง
Target Number One (released as Most Wanted in the United States, Suspect numéro un in Québec) is a 2020 Canadian crime film directed by Daniel Roby. Based on the true story of Alain Olivier, a Canadian drug addict from Quebec who spent eight years in prison in Thailand in the 1980s after having been set up as an unwitting pawn in an espionage plot by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, (wiki)
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