Upcoming Futurist Movies

Moon jurvetson FlickrSeveral new futurist movies are due out in the next two months:


Movie: Moon
Release date: Out in some US cities, and due out widely July 10
Futurist element: Mining colony, at least at some scale, on the Moon


Movie: GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
Release date: August 7, 2009
Futurist element: Military exoskeletons


Movie: District 9
Release date: August 14, 2009
Futurist element: Aliens living in South Africa


Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Release date: August 14, 2009
Futurist element: Time travel (though this version may have no scientific explanation)


Movie: Gamer
Release date: September 4, 2009
Futurist element: Brain implants and mental control


Movie: Splice
Release date: September 18, 2009
Futurist element: Genetic engineering runs wild


Movie: Surrogates
Release date: September 25, 2009
Futurist element: Virtual reality and robots, seemingly


Note that some of these dates could shift.

One thought on “Upcoming Futurist Movies”

  1. No too spolierish, but the time travel in TTW is compared to an epilepsy type condition, where the “fit” manifests as a time jump.

    CEK

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