Alien Planet

Alien Planet (2005)

TRAVEL 6.5 LIGHT-YEARS TO SEE WHAT SCIENCE PREDICTS IS REALLY OUT THERE.

The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another world, where life is possible, if not provable, according to scientists' theories. Take this fascinating journey created by state-of-the-art animation and photo-realistic effects.

Date of release
2005-05-14
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Documentary, Science Fiction, Animation
Director
Pierre de Lespinois

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV

Alien Planet is a 2005 docufiction TV special created for the Discovery Channel. Based on the 1990 book Expedition by the artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, Alien Planet explores the imagined extraterrestrial life of the fictional planet Darwin IV in the style of a nature documentary. Although closely following Barlowe's depiction of Darwin IV, Alien Planet features a team of scientists and science fiction figures discussing Darwin IV as if it had actually been discovered. Among the people featured are Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking, Jack Horner, James B. Garvin and George Lucas.

Production

Alien Planet is based on Expedition (1990) by the American artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, a heavily illustrated book which aimed to explore and describe a fictional extraterrestrial ecosystem as if it was as real as that of Earth. Barlowe served as one of the executive producers of the adaptation.

Though much of Darwin IV and its creatures is identical to what was presented in the book, Alien Planet diverges from Expedition in several ways. Unlike Expedition, which is set in the mid-24th century, Alien Planet is set at an unspecified point in the near future, and unlike in the book, when the expedition was a crewed mission, the planet is explored using sophisticated probes.

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