The Worldwide Area Station has been a beacon of worldwide cooperation and scientific analysis because it turned operational in 2000. However what if this orbital base turned a vantage level to witness the nuclear obliteration of our planet beneath?
Thus begins the premise of a brand new sci-fi movie from Bleecker Avenue titled, “I.S.S.,” the place mutually assured destruction brought on by an all-out atomic blitz on Earth transforms the Worldwide Area Station right into a claustrophobic fight zone when American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts should every attempt to take management of the orbital for their very own nation.
Starring the Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose (“West Facet Story”) and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite (“Blackfish”), this compelling challenge was screened at this 12 months’s Tribeca Movie Competition and is now primed for a theatrical launch on Jan. 19, 2024.
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Here is the official synopsis:
“Tensions flare within the close to future aboard the Worldwide Area Station as a worldwide battle breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts obtain orders from the bottom: take management of the station by any means essential. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, working with Nick Shafir’s Blacklist script, brings collectively a stellar forged that features Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbaek, John Gallagher Jr., Costa Ronin, and Masha Mashkova, in a high-stakes thriller set totally within the confines of the ISS as astronauts are referred to as to obligation in fateful and terrifying methods.”
An identical premise was performed out in director Peter Hyams’ “2010: The 12 months We Make Contact,” when American and Russian scientists and astronauts out to analyze the derelict spaceship from “2001: A Area Odyssey” discovered of a political firestorm on Earth and had to decide on sides after encountering an alien presence on Europa.
Whereas bursting atom bombs won’t seem as a tapestry of good orange blooms from the peak of 250 miles (400 km) up, and one would possibly surprise precisely why the ISS would nonetheless be a useful asset after whole armageddon strikes, it is Hollywood, in spite of everything, so a wholesome suspension of disbelief is required to swallow the plot and easily have enjoyable.
“I.S.S.” arrives in theaters on Jan. 19, 2024.
