The generation ship idea has been only sporadically conducted on film before. Cruz and Philip Levens, previously a story editor and producer on shows like Smallville (2001-11) and Knight Rider (2008-9). The mini-series was created by the relatively unknown Adrian A. The mini-series has certainly managed to rope in some interesting names in the director’s chair – including Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube (1997), Cypher (2002) and Nothing (2003), and Robert Liebermen, director of Fire in the Sky (1993) and Earthsea (2004), each handling an episode.
Best moments in ascension tv show series#
It was originally envisioned that this would launch a series – something that one finds a bizarre idea (more on that below) – but this never went ahead.
Best moments in ascension tv show movie#
Samantha Krueger is brought in by the project heads to investigate the murder but comes to the realisation that Harris is covering up much about the project, including that Christa Valis, one of the children aboard Ascension, has developed vast psychic potential.Īscension is a US-Canadian tv mini-series that aired in three two-hour slots (although the way the episodes are numbered, it looks as though this was intended to be one two-hour movie followed by four one-hour episodes). What none of them know is that Ascension is in fact a top secret simulated experiment back on Earth overseen by Harris Enzmann whose father started the project. Captain Denninger appoints his second-in-command Aaron Gault to investigate and Gault comes to the realisation that someone has managed to smuggle a gun on board. After Lorelei Wright is found dead on the ship’s artificial beach, they are faced for the first time with a murder on board. Life is strictly controlled in terms of birth, while there is rigid hierarchy between the officers who lead a privileged life on the upper decks and the workers in the lower decks. Its six hundred-person crew will live and die their lives on board and it will be their children that will see the new world.
The spaceship Ascension was launched in the 1960s and is now fifty years into a hundred year journey to Proxima Centauri.
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