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Post by baxterfan on Apr 4, 2007 8:23:33 GMT -5
I'm from Australia, and we literally just got the trailers on TV today. Anyways, apon investigation, and without seeing the movie, there is one theme that stands out, a striking similarity.
The sun dying thing is almost exactly the same as Stephen Baxters Xeelee sequence of books. In these books, all the stars are under attack by dark matter life called "photino birds".
My question is, did the creators get any inspiration out of reading Stephen Baxters books?
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Post by sunshinedna on Apr 4, 2007 9:33:58 GMT -5
That's interesting. No, they didn't. The science advisor on 'Sunshine' consulted his colleagues at CERN in Geneva. The paper the dark matter theory in Sunshine's backstory is based on is Star Wreck. |
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Post by baxterfan on Apr 6, 2007 12:52:34 GMT -5
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Post by pinkgothic on Apr 29, 2007 19:40:42 GMT -5
I was reminded of the Xeelee sequence, too, coincidentially, though actually not because of the photino birds. Sunshine just has a similar scale to the Baxter books. At least, in its first half. The technology used is massive and epic in itself. I never really liked Baxter's way of writing about characters, but I read his books because of the tech' and physics... and Sunshine struck me, first and foremost, in similar ways, though it's far better in regards to character development (in my opinion, at least). But still, what stood out most for me in the movie was the sheer scale of the project - and that is what I find so Baxter-ish. Unfortunately, there is never really an explanation (that I caught, at least) as to why the sun is dying. Perhaps it has indeed simply started to reach the end of its lifecycle as a main sequence star and is a few years/decades from going Red Giant. But that, in turn, does not seem like the sort of thing that would be fixable with a bomb, so I'm not certain what the background on the sun's "death" is. |
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