which sci fi movie takes place the farthest in the future?

[lester1/2jr]

  I'm not a big sci fi guy but do enjoy the genre.  I was wondering what movie takes place at the latest date in the future.  I mean, Orwell didn't do to good with 1984.  Ar there any movies or shows or even books that take place in like    1,000,000 A.D.? like 998,000 years from now? later?

[JohnL]

I don't remember the exact amount, but the original version of The Time Machine racked up a pretty impressive display on his date counter.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I'm not a fan of the Warhammer series but I believe that takes place WAY in the future.  The year 40,000 if I'm not mistaken.

[Dave Munger]

I was going to start a whole topic on this, but this seems like an OK place to bring it up. I think that movies set in the future are almost always supposed to be further in the future than they say for some reason, so there should be a formula, like you add a zero to the date they say. Maybe when a screenplay is set in one million AD, they usually change it to 2012 or something, so that's why they have insanely advanced technology in the near future so much (immortality, anti-gravity, FTL space travel, teleportation, androids that pass for human, etc)

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[Scott]

Wow 40,000 into the future ! I think they probably forgot about us by then. Image where man might or might not be in 40,000 years.

[Menard]

I know WARHAMMER 40K is a game series published by Games Workshop, but did they actually make a movie about it?

[lester1/2jr]

Isn't the sun supposed to blow up in 5 million years or something?  Imagin if no one did anything! that'd be just like us "oh were we supposed to have a plan?"

[Gadziller]

What about  George Pal's "The Time Machine"?  Rod Taylor travels 800,000 years into the future. That's a looooong time from now, eh?

[BoyScoutKevin]

That would be the original "Time Machine." I don't know how far, but the remake also went a great distance into the future. Which I believe created some criticism on how scientifically accurate the film was. For example, would people still be speaking perfect English that far into the future?

[Flangepart]

Ya want a loooooong time frame? Try junior high school cafiteria.
And no pizza burgers in sight!

[Ed]

Dune is over 30,000 years in the future, I think.
Ed

[Fearless Freep]

How far forward was Asimov's "Foundation" series?

[Dave Munger]

Sun's supposed to go in about 5 billion years, I think.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

The Sun is halfway through it's 10 billion year life-cycle but  before that, at some point before that though, Sol will expand to over 100 times its current size engulfing the inner planets before finally exhausting all its fuel and becoming a brown dwarf... I think.

Wasn't the original Dune like 10,000 years but then progressed quite a lot with the last book being several thousand years after that?

The Foundation series was a lway forward... I don't think they said how exactly far though. It was sufficiently far ahead though, that people had actually forgotten about Earth. As in - there were all kinds of myths about it... people found it hard to believe that we all came from one planet. It was certainly thousands of years into the future.

Although, I can see why people are so loathe to set something more than a few hundred years into the future. It's a world that just gets so far from everything you know, you might as well start with a whole new history etc. Also, given the past thousand years it's fair to say that predicting what the world will be like then is very hard.

I think someone said, that a few decades ago, you had authors writing about might galaxy spanning empires in the distant future but now, it's a struggle for sci-fi authors to say something even a few years into the future.

[odinn7]

OH MY GOD! We're all doomed when the sun is finished! Why did you guys have to start discussing this now, you've ruined my day...I'm going to sit here and worry about this for the next 5 billion years!

Anyway...Slightly off topic here but I'm often amused when I watch a movie that was set in the future but I'm watching it the year it was supposed to be or later. An example is Escape From NY. It was set in 1997 or 99 (I think) and although there wasn't any wild technology in that movie, society was way different. Manhattan island was converted into a prison, funny stuff.  I also find the old analog style meters and gauges that they use on spaceships, such as on the original Star Trek series, funny. These things don't make movies bad but it's always fun to see someone's idea of how things will be and how different things really are.



Post Edited (01-12-05 08:15)