Starring:
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
Director:
Pierre de Lespinois
Synopsis:
Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun, leaving Earth’s orbit. Traveling at 20% the speed of light (37,000 miles/s), it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years. Upon reaching orbit, it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, which looks for potential landing sites for the probes. The first probe, Balboa, explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry, because one of its wings failed to unfold. Two backup probes, Leonardo da Vinci (nicknamed Leo) and Isaac Newton (nicknamed Ike), successfully land on the planet, and learn much about its bizarre indigenous.
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