"New Sci-Fi Movie Prospect's Insane Dedication To ..." Topic

…Practical Effects.

"Prospect is different from most of the sweeping, universe-scale sci-fi epics that come out these days. No one is trying to destroy any planets or galaxies, there's no millennia-spanning lore about ancient races seeding the future with mysterious artifacts, and Earth isn't locked in a desperate war with any distant colonies (that we know of). Instead, Prospect is the story of a man, his daughter, and a bandit trying to simply stay alive on an unforgiving alien frontier. And it has some insanely awesome practical special effects.

Directed by Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl, and based on their 2014 short film of the same name, Prospect follows Cee (Sophie Thatcher), her father Damon (Jay Duplass), and a bandit named Ezra (Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal). It's the plot of a Western transplanted onto a faraway planet: Damon and Cee are essentially gold prospectors who score big before Ezra strikes and turns their lives upside-down. Just replace gold with larvae-like alien bug crystals, cowboy hats and chaps with clunking space suits, and the dusty frontier with a lush jungle pervaded by thick, poisonous clouds of "dust" that necessitate keeping those suits on nearly 24/7. That's Prospect…."
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