The book was amazing, one of my all-time favorites. Can’t wait for this to release!
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Why would they spoil rocky in the trailer smh. That surprise while reading the book was incredible.
Yo dawg, your spoiler alert needs a spoiler alert.
Right? It’s the perfect surprise, that’s why the book keeps it under wraps. They basically spoiled the whole movie right there.
Not the whole movie. But a big fun surprise yeah.
Not just Rocky… I won’t spoil it here, but there are scenes in the trailer that are a REALLY late revelation in the book.
It also looks very Earth centric I wonder if they’re going to avoid the whole flashback sequences by just doing everything chronologically.
I’ve read the book so don’t worry, throw a spoil tag I’m curious to see what you saw that was even later. I didn’t notice anything else… huge
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The whole bit where it turns out Grace didn’t actually volunteer, that they forced him on to the mission. Those scenes are given away in the trailer.
oh god yeah I did completely forget that, and you’re right the trailer just kinda says it outright. I guess we don’t get the “mystery” of discovering how it happened… can’t trust the viewer that much…
I’ve never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of “stars being infected except one” paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.
If anything, I’m somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy^1 I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect^2 a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that’s my fault for not actually being into 40K.
^1 the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I’m concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.
^2 the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don’t think he would’ve been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.
No spoilers - This is all in the trailer or back of the book-jacket kind of stuff.
The basic premise is that the sun is infected with something that’s absorbing energy and, if left untreated, the Earth is going to catastrophically cool down.
Tracing it back, they can identify which stars in the local cluster are infected and which infected which.
In the center is Tau Ceti which SHOULD be infected, but isn’t, and nobody knows why.
So the mission is to go to Tau Ceti, find out why it’s not infected, and get that information back to Earth.
Yeah this should have a spoiler tag. That took away from what could have been a fun development
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Thanks for the heads up, now I definitely won’t watch the trailer.
Ha!
