Interstellar News

Aliens

EY's mind changes such that a boring explanation is worldview-shattering

EY suffers severe mental degeneration leading to delusions

Eliezer knows aliens are real and will be disclosed soon. He's rallying people to dump money into a bet he is secretly betting against to teach them about the fallacy of appeal to authority.

Simulation Hypothesis

Demons (as in a traditional Abrahamic religion)

UFOs are time travelers

Holographic Principle

UFOs are angels

UFOs are psychic manifestations

Idealism (Consciousness underpins physical reality)

Other

UFOs are a product of a massive conspiracy unrelated to non-human entities

Ultraterrestrials (home-grown, advanced non-human civs, hidden from us)

UFOs are part of/directed by a superintelligence

AI is harder than practical interstellar travel

UFOs are aliens intentionally both hiding themselves and revealing themselves to sow chaos

Idiocracy (2006)

Other

Her (2013)

Interstellar (2014)

Children of Men (2006)

WALL-E (2008)

Ready Player One (2018)

The Matrix (1999)

Minority Report (2002)

The Terminator (2004)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Terminator (1984)

The Lives of Others (2006)

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Elysium (2013)

Ad Astra (2019)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Gattaca (1997)

Male main character

Adaptation of the “Odyssey”

Summer release date

2026 release date

Nolan also credited as a writer and producer

Emma Thomas producing

Involves the manipulation of the time or of the perception of time (e.g., time moving slower in dreams, non-chronological scenes in Memento to emulate amnesia, the whole plots of Interstellar and Tenet)

Rotten Tomatoes critic score >80% two weeks after release

Shot on IMAX 70mm film

Longer than 2hrs 30mins runtime

Rotten Tomatoes critic score >90% two weeks after release

Nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars

Has a run time over 2.5 hours

Based on a historical figure or event

Scored by Hans Zimmer

Passes the bechdel test

Rotten tomatoes audience score greater than critics score two weeks after release

Makes $1B at the global box office on initial release

Cillian Murphy will be in the cast

Michael Caine will be in the cast

Prequel or Sequel

Tom Holland plays the main character

2025 release date

True story

Protagonist uses a gun

Will be a Bond film

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