Director Denis Villeneuve considers Rendezvous with Rama his first true hard sci-fi film—grounded, realistic, and closer in style to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than Dune’s epic scope.
Eric Roth wrote the screenplay. The production will showcase Villeneuve’s signature slow-burn tension, vast minimalist visuals, and immersive practical/VFX sequences inside the giant alien cylinder.
The project will be budgeted at $190–250 million but is currently behind Villeneuve's upcoming James Bond film.
I've watched @LuigiVenditelli's S4 documentary, and every Bob Lazar interview that's come out in the past couple of weeks. In my opinion, @AlchemyAmerican's is hands down the best of them all.
But I think my favorite part was Jesse's dozen-plus minute digression into explaining the exotic properties of Bismuth, which sits just above Moscovium (The now-named "Element 115" Lazar says powered the craft he was studying) and should share many of the same properties.
I can see how much work went into this explainer. They spent so much time (and money) on the graphics and explanation. I don't have the science background to fully absorb all of this at the level of true comprehension, but I'm nerdy enough to have found it absolutely riveting:
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