Well star watchers, did you know there was going to be a new Supernova visible all over the country around Christmas? A loose lipped stargazer spills the beans on this upcoming eye candy in his/her spoiler rich report from some lonely western mountain top. Be warned this may spoil your view a few months from now.
Hi Harry,
I had a chance the other day to read the script for the upcoming sci-fi flick Supernova. Well for from what I hear the budget is set around 90 mill and it will need every penny. The film is set for a Chrsitmas day opening and from reading the script that is a mistake. I include several spoiler below so if you don't want to know stop here.
The script starts out much like Alien in as we see the ship from different views and then they make the rounds introducing us to the crew. Things start to progress quickly as just the ship, which is a medical rescue ship, soon recieves a distress call from an unknown ship (like in Alien). Further info reveals it to be a water mining operation on a comet in a far off galaxy. So in order to get there they must make a dimensional jump. However the crew can't just flip a switch they have to first seal themselves up in seperate capsules like the sleep modules used again in Alien (see a pattern yet?) . After the jump we learn why, if you aren't properly sealed when you de-jump you may end up with your body melded to the stasis chamber. Well that is exactly waht happens to one of the crew as we learn one chamber had a crack in in.
Now the film changes tone, quickly the crew are alerted to a single escape ship leaving from the comet. When it comes aboard we learn that there is only one survivor and everyone else has been killed in an accident. Not long after that we learn that they have come out of hyper sapce right near a star that is about to go Supernova (hence the title). No worry though, they have plenty of time to leave right? Wrong. You see in the first few pages we learned that there chief engineer is dead and he had retty much jury rigged the whole ship into working (like Scotty) and the company (like Alien) didn't think it was worrth replacing him before they went on their patrol. So now se find out thata tin of things blew during the jump, the good news is though that one of the crew is an ex-military pilot and he is going to try to fix things, the survivor offers to help but nobody trusts him so he stays in the infirmary. Now they di a scan on him and he's fine, except fro some unusual bone growth (hmm).
Then something happens and the star is going to go critical in just a couple of hours instead of the 14 they had, they need to get away but they don't have fuel and the jump engines are still down. So our military guy goes down to the comet to look for fuel, of which he is assured to find by our friend from below. Now they start to trudt him and he is allowed to to work on the broken stasis chamber. Remeber they have an extra guy now so ther's not enough of them. While he'doing that someone decised to check out that escap shuttle he came from and low and behold they find some kind of alien artifact. The survivor doesn't like that as the rules call for a quarentine and the Company gets to confiscate the item. he talks them into keeping it a secret and they are still cautious and scan the item. Looks harmless so they agree.
From here on out the new guy starts killing the rest of the crew one by one and soon we learn that he's being controlled by the artifact (you know like Event Horizon) and it wants everyone dead and to be taken back to earth space? Why you ask, well once it reches a populated area it cuases that systems sun to go Supernova and kill everyone out there. It looks like some super advanced race has littered these puppies all over the galaxy in order to remain the most superior race around. Anyone advanced enought to get this deep into space is a threat and deserves to die. So the rest of the film is the usual kill or be killed scenario and I won't reveal the ending (pretty obvious actually) the last shot of the film should be fantastic, and it's not what you think. Howeevr the last shot not withstanding, the script was only ok at best and I read the shooting draft with handwritten re-writes so it's not like they can change much from what I wrote here. It mgith be cool but they rip off so many other sci-fi films it's hard not to concentrate on that when you read the script.
Hopefully the film will be better than it sounds. Well this is my first review/synopses for you Harry.
Call me Desslock
