Elon is a dipshit, but Tesla should have gotten an invite. Say what you will about him or billionaires in general, without Tesla as a company, and the efforts of their workers, I do not think electric cars would be as popular as they are today.

Visually, overall very good. I am a little disappointed with the shot at 0:38 but it is more likely than not a WIP. That being said, I wish they had just used miniatures. I am not a CG ‘hater’ as it is my career, but miniatures worked so effectively for the original film and would have ensured visual continuity…

One of the methods calls for the construction of a giant solar shade to block the sun from hitting Venus. The planet would cool rapidly raining/snowing its 90 bar Co2 atmosphere to the ground. During this period the C02 ice would need to be removed, buried or converted into something else. Another theory suggests…

Some rover concepts I have seen mount the spacesuit on the outside so that the astronauts can enter from the pressurised space inside. I can’t imagine that would be a long term solution. However in the beginning perhaps no suit or sample will enter or leave through an airlock. Mars also has the the perchlorate factor,…

Mixed. He says a lot of the right things but his actions speak volumes. He’s very Obama.

Canadian, not a Trudeau/Liberal Party fan but this amused me. Trudeau looks like he could have pulled Trump down the stairs.

VFX artist here. There is no comparison between Cushing in Rogue One and Bridges in Tron from my point of view and this shows how far digital doubles have come. Considering Cushing is no longer alive it is even more impressive. In the case of Bridges in Tron, (1) They had a mold of his head from roughly the right time…

Enjoyed the film for the most part but felt the characters were lacking. The end sequence would have been so much more effective if they had made me care. Donny Yen and the rest of his crew worked but pretty much no one else. Had high expectations for K2-SO, but I think I only chuckled once or twice. Was expecting…

Just playing devils advocate here as they should have hired him. That being said, maybe they didn’t call him back because they assumed he didn’t need the money? Jobs currently are not raining from the sky. Here is someone who is retired and I imagine quite wealthy already. Does he need to work? By taking the job,…

History has an inertia. A common reaction to this inertia seems to be a self hate directed towards our species. It is as sad as the inaction of governments worldwide. If we are going to slow and eventually reverse climate change, human society needs to believe we are worth saving. Without that feeling, I fear collapse.

Trudeau is known to be very disciplined, no doubt he prepared for this. Kudos to him for making the effort. Shame that he supports Canada’s version of the Patriot Act which uses the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms like so much toilet paper.

I don’t mind is so far. That being said, the girl talking to someone on the radio storyline did not make any sense time/speed wise. They’re on a yacht travelling a comfortable speed towards San Diego. They have been travelling since the previous night, so even at 3 knots and maybe 16 hours of travel they should be…

Exactly, she was in her early 30's. I guess they could age Maya, Nadia, and Ann down to match Hiroko, but I still think it is more likely that they would de-age all characters uniformly.

This rings true.

Agreed. That alone makes me confident that it will be adapted one day. And there’s a lot of buzz around Mars right now, with SpaceX’s Mars Colonization plans, The Martian, Nasa’s Journey to Mars / SLS& Orion Progress, Mars One, all the rovers/landers/orbiters. If there was ever a time to do it, it is now.

Same here. Since it was announced that Spike TV behind the adaptation I suspected that they planned to reduce the age of the all characters by 10 years or more (making Hiroko in her early 20's, Vlad in his 40s/50s). Coupled too perhaps with the treatment being invented earlier in the story... afterall, by the time…

I agree that the performance is the most important part, and maybe these guys are great actors, but they look nothing like Harrison Ford.... to the point where it is actually an issue. I guess with makeup and or CG they might be able to push it but really, it is not even close.

I am really intrigued to see who they cast, how they handle the treatment and the age of the characters. My first guess is that the characters will be de-aged by 10 years across the board. And ..maybe the treatment is introduced even earlier in the story...

Disappointed if they are cutting back on the portrayal of Roland’s world. I found it much more compelling and the strongest books were mostly set there. There is the mystery, what is this place, is it our reality? you start to see the links and the differences. I enjoyed discovering the world. It worked very well for…

One change that I hope SpikeTV I makes is for American side of the First Hundred to be more diverse, especially considering that they’ll probably be shifting the landing date from 2026 to 2036/2046. When Boone landed on Mars during the first manned mission, Chalmers went to a bar and an old man said to him, “Even you…