Future shock

A new British sci-fi movie with brains is a complex chamber piece (and observes the classical unities)

A Million Days Dir Mitch Jenkins, UK 2023 On digital platforms A Million Days is a British sci-fi drama that belies its limitations to produce an engrossing and complex chamber piece. The Earth is experiencing a catastrophic environmental disaster and a ‘Space Seeding’ project is in place to colonise other worlds. On the eve of mission launch, Commander Anderson Reigel (Simon Merrells) and his partner Sam (Kemi-Bo Jacobs), both members of the project, settle down for a romantic farewell evening before Reigel departs for a lunar colony. They are interrupted by colleague Charlie (Hermione Corfield) who brings some shocking data produced by Jay, the AI system underpinning the mission. Unrequested, Jay has run simulations far beyond the timescale of the project – 2,740 years into the future, in fact, the…

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