In “The War of the Worlds”, writer H.G. Wells posited a Martian culture that would attempt to conquer Earth. In 1938, Orson Welles panicked listeners who thought they were listening to a news broadcast rather than his radio adaptation of Wells’s novel. In 1953 and 2005 came two big screen versions of the alien attack.
In 1964, audiences flocked to cinemas to see Robinson Crusoe On Mars – the sci-fi version of the classic novel by author Daniel Defoe.
Our fascination with the Red Planet is seemingly inexhaustible.
Now comes 20th Century Fox’s The Martian and on Saturday the crew of the International Space Station were treated to an early screening of director Ridley Scott’s latest film. Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren tweeted out the photos below.
On March 27, Kelly launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to stay aboard the Iss for one year, which is twice as long as typical U.
In 1964, audiences flocked to cinemas to see Robinson Crusoe On Mars – the sci-fi version of the classic novel by author Daniel Defoe.
Our fascination with the Red Planet is seemingly inexhaustible.
Now comes 20th Century Fox’s The Martian and on Saturday the crew of the International Space Station were treated to an early screening of director Ridley Scott’s latest film. Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren tweeted out the photos below.
On March 27, Kelly launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to stay aboard the Iss for one year, which is twice as long as typical U.
- 9/20/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For his latest trick, Christopher Nolan brings audiences to a new galaxy, as the tattered remnants of Nasa.s space program (personified by Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway) target new and hospitable planets in a neighboring solar system to which Earth.s remaining citizens can move. Given the heavy scientific bent of Nolan.s Interstellar, which opens in theaters later this week, you would think that the director had Nasa experts on speed dial, asking them to fact check all of the data in his screenplay. You would be wrong. In an interview with Yahoo Movies, Nasa.s Bert Ulrich explained how Hollywood and the government.s chief space agency work hand in hand when it comes to their storytelling efforts. Ulrich serves as the multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations, though he admitted that Christopher Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, didn.t really get involved . to a deep...
- 11/4/2014
- cinemablend.com
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