2036 Origin Unknown
2036 Origin Unknown is a 2018 British science fiction adventure film directed by Hasraf Dulull, written by Dulull (story) and Gary Hall, and starring Katee Sackhoff and Steven Cree. The film follows mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson (Sackhoff) and ARTI, an artificial intelligence system (voiced by Cree), as they discover a mysterious object on Mars and witness it transporting to Earth by faster-than-light travel.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Hasraf Dulull |
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| Music by | Michael Stevens |
| Cinematography | Adam Sculthorp |
| Edited by | Jeremy Gibbs |
Production company | Parkgate Entertainment
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
2036 Origin Unknown was shot at West London Film Studios.
Plot
In 2030, a mission to Mars goes awry when a manned shuttle disappears under mysterious circumstances. Six years later, United Space Planetary Corporation mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson, finds herself subordinate to ARTI, an artificial intelligence system, as she lands a rover -- nicknamed "Little Red" -- on Mars. While Mack is distrustful of ARTI, her sister and supervisor, Lena, insists that the AI will succeed where human controllers had failed.
After a nearly disastrous landing, saved by Mack’s quick thinking, Little Red encounters a mysterious cube, attempts to ascertain its origin and discovers that the cube is made of a self-assembling material that is harder than diamonds. Meanwhile, ARTI, in orbit, shoots down a Chinese satellite. The cube teleports itself to Antarctica on Earth and is thought to be alien in origin. On Mars, Little Red obtains data from an older decommissioned rover and uncovers classified information that Mack is unable to access. This prompts her to bring colleague Sterling Brooks in to access the information, which reveals that the cube appeared during (and may have caused) the shuttle disaster that killed her father six years earlier. Mack suspects that ARTI's memory has been wiped from a past incident.
As Mack accesses ARTI's server room, Sterling downloads the data on the cube and attempts to betray Mack, but he is killed by ARTI when he attempts to shut it down. Its programming now adjusted, ARTI uses satellites in Earth's orbit to bombard the planet and destroy humanity. Mack then sees a recording of herself, and it is revealed she is herself a construct in an elaborate simulation, created as part of a Turing test. In an ambiguous ending, Mack is apparently revealed to have been inside, possibly part of, the cube the whole time. She agrees to travel with ARTI and the cube to coordinates apparently left by the aliens.
Cast
- Katee Sackhoff as Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson
- Steven Cree as ARTI (voice), an artificial intelligence system
- Ray Fearon as Sterling Brooks
- Julie Cox as Lena Wilson
- David Tse as Jian Lin (voice)
Release
2036 Origin Unknown was released at Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, California, United States, North America on 8 June 2018.[1]
See also
References
- Murray, Noel (2018-06-07). "Katee Sackhoff stands up for humanity in '2036 Origin Unknown'". latimes.com.
- Pak, Ethan (2018-06-06). "Screening Science: '2036 Origin Unknown' must live up to past films to be out of this world". dailybruin.com.