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The Shape of Things to Come is a canadien film of genre Science fiction directed by George McCowan released in USA on 1 august 1979 with Jack Palance
The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 august 1979
Length 1h38
Directed by George McCowan
OriginCanada
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Disaster films
Rating32%
H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come is a Canadian science fiction motion picture first released in May 1979. Although credited to H. G. Wells, the film takes only its title and some character names from The Shape of Things to Come, Wells' speculative novel from 1933. The film's plot has no relationship to the events of the book. The book predicts events such as a Second World War and the collapse of social order until a world state is formed, whereas the film involves a high-tech future involving robots and spaceships. The film was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of such recent successes as Star Wars, and TV series such as Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica, although the film had only a fraction of the production budget of any of these.
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Sometime in the future, Earth is recovering from "The Robot Wars" that devastated the planet seven years earlier. Most of humanity now lives on the Moon within a domed city called New Washington, but their survival depends on an anti-radiation drug called Raddic-Q2 which is manufactured on the distant planet Delta 3.Actors
Jack Palance
(Omus)
Carol Lynley
(Nikki)
Barry Morse
(Dr. John Caball)
John Ireland
(Senator Smedley)
Nicholas Campbell
(Jason Caball)
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