Alien Planet (TV 2005)

The CGI or computer animated drama/documentary takes place on Darwin IV, a planet 6.5 light years from earth, with 2 suns and 60% of Earth's gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world ... See full summary »

Director:

Pierre de Lespinois

Writers:

Peter Crabbe, Steve Eder

Stars:

Wayne D. Barlowe, Curtis Clark, James Garvin

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Wayne D. Barlowe	...	Himself
Curtis Clark	...	Himself
James Garvin	...	Himself
Jamie Hanes	...	Himself (as Jamie Haines)
Stephen Hawking	...	Himself
Jack Horner	...	Himself
Joan Horvath	...	Herself
Michio Kaku	...	Himself
James Kirkland	...	Himself
George Lucas	...	Himself
John C. McGinley	...	Narrator
Victoria Meadows	...	Herself
David Moriarty	...	Himself
Randy Pollock	...	Himself
J. Craig Venter	...	Himself

Storyline

The CGI or computer animated drama/documentary takes place on Darwin IV, a planet 6.5 light years from earth, with 2 suns and 60% of Earth's gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world that could support life, Earth sends a pilot mission consisting of the Mothership Von Braun and three probes: Balboa, Da Vinci, and Newton. This robotic fleet is responsible for finding and assessing any life forms on Darwin IV. Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life, but the probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed ecosystem teeming with diversity of life of all sizes. The drama on Darwin IV is motivated by real science missions, such as the NASA Origins Program and the NASA / JPL Planet-Finder Mission, as well as the European Space Agency's Darwin Project. "Alien Planet " is a cosmic expedition along side Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Jack Horner, Craig Venter, and George Lucas, and NASA's Chief Scientist Jim Garvin. No longer just the domain of science fiction, "Alien...

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Plot Keywords:

alien | planet | nasa | alien planet | expedition | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Animation | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Discovery Channel [us] Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 May 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Idegen bolygó

Filming Locations:

Iceland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Discovery Channel, Evergreen Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min 94 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Not interesting.

I was waiting for something better. What is the point in waisting my time watching a documentary of something that doesn't exist? They are not even close to being able to have such technologies they should have just made a sci fi movie and saved some money.

Lot of people say it's genius but I think this is awful most of the creatures look like they came out of a video game and there is no way that most of them could exist.

The cgi is poor I could make that with my own personal comupter within a week don't know why other people are like wow such good cgi (Now days it's so easy to make better cgi the people that don't know how are incompetent like a lot of movie producers).

Like I read this is pure fantasy and in my opinion quite a waste of time. If you got time to waste go watch a documentary on animal that live on our planet at least you would learn something.

This documentary was fully made by dreamers and not people that want to make the world advance.