Awesome Sci-fi

The Signal is a sci-fi thriller about three MIT students who experience bizarre events en route to meeting a rival hacker. When Morpheus in a hazmat suit is compelled to ask you if you’re from Earth, you know stuff ain’t right.

A young man with amnesia finds himself in an mysterious prison with other teenage boys. The prison is surrounded by a gigantic maze. The Maze Runner is an adaptation of James Dashner’s eponymous young adult novel.

Simon Stålenhag loves to paint robots and futuristic structures sitting in otherwise normal suburbs and countrysides. They look like more peaceful versions of Borderlands’ Pandora. You can buy prints of his art on RedBubble.

(NSFW/Gore) In the distant future, humans have become immortal cyborgs but are unable to reproduce. Takahide Hori’s Junk Head 1 is a funny and horrifying masterpiece of stop-motion. For the love of God, let’s fund the sequel.

Star Trek meets Facebook in Redshirt, a sci-fi sim for Windows, OS X and Linux. The game satirizes our online behavior, requiring players to manage relationships with their online buddies in order to progress.

“Your Earth is a very small part of a very large industry.” Mila Kunis plays a lowly human who discovers that she may be the next leader of the universe in the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending. Also starring Channing Tatum and Sean Bean.

“I am the new world. And you are part of the old.” A scientist of the UK’s Ministry of Defence creates a highly intelligent android. Will it – she? – save us or doom us all? A sci-fi thriller in the vein of Blade Runner, RoboCop and Frankenstein.

The full version of Anders Ramsell’s Blade Runner: The Aquarelle Edition, a hazy re-cut of the cyberpunk classic made using 12,597 hand painted frames. Made for and by someone who’s seen the film multiple times.

Asthree Works turns the table on a popular sci-fi trope. Play as a plant-like alien captured by a secret government organization. Use your powers to sneak and defeat the humans in this stealth platformer for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Alfonso Cuarón wants us to feel like we are realistically floating in space in the theatre; this extended featurette on his latest film Gravity gives a behind the scenes look at just how that will happen. Guess we need to see it in IMAX.

Dirk Loechel is working on a chart that compares the sizes of spaceships from various sci-fi series. The chart is already daunting and makes for an awesome wallpaper, but he’s far from finished. It barely has any ships from manga and anime.

A crew member of the first manned mission to Mars discovers fossils of bacteria right before leaving the planet. Against orders, he sets out to get more. He doesn’t return. We guess he hasn’t seen Prometheus. From the director of Blinky™.

Mr. Nobody is a science fiction drama that tells the tale of the last human mortal, a 118-year old man named Nemo Nobody. When asked to share his story, Nemo claims to have experienced events from different versions of his life.

(NSFW) Three college friends attend an insane house party and find things quickly spiraling out of their control. Sounds like a tired plot doesn’t it? Wait ’til you see how things get out of hand in this very intriguing movie.

A once advanced civilization is reduced to ruins when a race of supernatural beings deprives man of electricity. This proof of concept for a TV series or feature film is a mix of Western, science fiction and fantasy.

To hype up X-Men: Days of Future Past, Marvel set up a fake website for Trask Industries, the company that builds Sentinels. The site has lots of information and images, including a shot of Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask.

This limited edition 3D Combo Blu-ray box set of Star Trek: Into Darkness comes with a life-size phaser replica. Made by Quantum Mechanix, the phaser’s barrel can be switched between stun and kill mode.

(NSFW: Language, Gore, Spoilers) The escaped convict Riddick finds himself between a rock, a hard place and an even harder place: bounty hunters, a catastrophic storm and a race of deadly aliens are all out for his head.

The latest trailer for Pacific Rim reminds us that there are people in it too. Expect them to cry, shout and give motivating speeches. Uhuh. In other news, coming 7/12/13: Huge Robots Fighting Equally Huge Monsters: The Movie.

(Spoilers) Director Guillermo del Toro and the cast and crew of Pacific Rim talk about the different mecha in the movie, and how they strive to make them unique. Think you can do better? Design your own Jaeger here.

The second trailer for Elysium shows how the movie’s dystopic Earth has become a downright terrible place to live in. How terrible? Earth folk are not allowed to be sarcastic. Damn robots. Go forth Matt Damon, fight for sarcasm!

Doomed by an ice age, the last humans are forced to live in a train that goes around the world. Worse, an oppressive class system has taken over the train. An adaptation of a sci-fi comic starring Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton.

Europa Report is about a privately funded expedition to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, searching for evidence of life in the moon’s oceans. The movie has been praised for its believable take on space travel.