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spacetime coordinates: 10191, ocean planet Caladan / desert planet Arrakis
Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, primarily covering the first half of the book. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: August 1966 Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is a 2019 Australian war film about the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War. It is directed by Kriv Stenders and stars Travis Fimmel. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: In a region in Japan devastated and quarantined years ago in an accident in which highly volatile nuclear waste was spilled after a crash between the waste transport and a prison bus, a settlement called Samurai Town is ruled by an unscrupulous Governor who has blended elements of Japanese society (both modern-day and pre-modern) and the old American West together at his whim, and is keeping a harem of adopted “granddaughters” as his sex slaves. The outside is a wasteland known as the Ghostland, inhabited by half-crazed outcasts and victims of the irradiated environment.
Prisoners of the Ghostland is a 2021 Japanese/American neo-noir Western action film directed by Sion Sono (first overseas production and English-language debut), from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes and Bill Moseley. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 1903 around Auckland in the British colony of New Zealand
Tracker is a 2010 British–New Zealand action-thriller film directed by Ian Sharp and starring Ray Winstone as a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War and a master tracker & Temuera Morrison as a Maori harpooner on a whaling ship. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: a Viking Age expedition arrives in North America, intending to subjugate or slaughter the native “Skræling” population.
Pathfinder (also known by the alternate title Pathfinder: The Legend of the Ghost Warrior) is a 2007 American epic action film directed by Marcus Nispel. It stars Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Ralf Moeller, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, and Nathaniel Arcand.
The film was loosely based on a 1987 Norwegian film Pathfinder. It was also adapted into a graphic novel by Dark Horse Comics. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2000’s New York City, Washington, D.C. / 2010’s London
Night at the Museum is an American media franchise of fantasy-comedy films based on the children’s book The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc, are directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Ben Stiller as a museum night security guard named Larry Daley, the films also star an ensemble cast featuring Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Patrick Gallagher, Rami Malek, Mizuo Peck, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Dick Van Dyke. (wiki)
Night at the Museum (2006) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) – imdb
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again (2022) – imdb
The Boys is an American superhero streaming television series developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, which was originally published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint before moving to Dynamite Entertainment; it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.
The series stars an ensemble cast that includes Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capon and Karen Fukuhara as the titular vigilantes, and Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Chace Crawford, Jessie T. Usher and Nathan Mitchell as members of the “Seven”, an official superhero group run by the conglomerate Vought International, who, while maintaining a lofty façade, are shallow celebrity figures prone to do horrendous things in secret. (wiki)
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