jupiter ascending traveller

[locarno24]

I know this film took a bit of a paning, but if you get a chance, I say go.
the story is okay, but visually its awesome and the universe, more importantly, is fantastic - a mix of the traveller imperium with its gravtech, anti-agathics, genetics and 'splices' - hybrids who stand in for uplifts like vargr, with teavellr ancients who've been around for millenia and cultivate inhabited planets and are responsible for vampire ande angel myths, with 40k's cover everything in gothic statuary meets brutalist industrial architecture style, house-that-sends-you-mad bureacracy and complete disregard for normal people by the nobility, with gundam wing dogfighters carried by the aegis (the police force).

If it isn't successful, it's probably a license mongose could pick up for peanuts and I would love appropriately pretty sourcebooks...

Have a look at some of the stuff on IO9 in their interview with the lead designer, george hull.

I particularly love the "free floating components" bit of the starship aesthetic, which makes sense in a universe of grav tech and forcefields but I cant recall seing before on screen.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Or watch the trailer that shows the whole movie.

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

I know this film took a bit of a paning, but if you get a chance, I say go.
the story is okay, but visually its awesome and the universe, more importantly, is fantastic - a mix of the traveller imperium with its gravtech, anti-agathics, genetics and 'splices' - hybrids who stand in for uplifts like vargr, with teavellr ancients who've been around for millenia and cultivate inhabited planets and are responsible for vampire ande angel myths, with 40k's cover everything in gothic statuary meets brutalist industrial architecture style, house-that-sends-you-mad bureacracy and complete disregard for normal people by the nobility, with gundam wing dogfighters carried by the aegis (the police force).

If it isn't successful, it's probably a license mongose could pick up for peanuts and I would love appropriately pretty sourcebooks...

Have a look at some of the stuff on IO9 in their interview with the lead designer, george hull.

I particularly love the "free floating components" bit of the starship aesthetic, which makes sense in a universe of grav tech and forcefields but I cant recall seing before on screen.

How do they survive in Jupiter?

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

The Jupiter of the title is NOT Jupiter the planet, but Jupiter the WOMAN. You get that in the extended Trailer

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

The Jupiter of the title is NOT Jupiter the planet, but Jupiter the WOMAN. You get that in the extended Trailer

But Jupiter is the name of a male Roman god, not a goddess. Shouldn't her name be Juno?
Okay, kind of like the Princess and the Pauper. Shares somethings in common with Battlestar Galactica.

 

[GypsyComet]

Haven't seen the movie yet, but it is possible that Jupiter is a middle name or a nickname. I haven't seen any indication of that, though. My guess is that it's an epidural name.

 

[locarno24]

Jupiter the planet is also involved - there's a sealed*, pressure-proofed** floating*** industrial facility carrying out nefarious shennanigans inside the Great Red Spot - it can project a turbulence-clearing, pressure-shielded path up to the edge of the atmosphere, or shut it down if it...ah...doesn't want visitors.

Jupiter is her name, and she's named for the planet, not the deity. Her father was an astronomer and suggested the name before he knew his child was a girl. The mother was neither an astronomer nor a historian (nor, for that matter, a native English speaker), and took the suggestion as a way to remember the father who was somewhat dead at the point the child was born.




* Until a Zero-class superiority battlesuit piloted by a rather irritable special forces trooper comes through the ceiling, anyway.
** See above.
*** See above.

 

[dragoner]

Just saw it, it was a decent "space princess in peril" type space opera, not as good as 5th Element, but decent enough.