James Cameron Is Making a Documentary Series on the History of Science Fiction

James Cameron is teaming up with AMC to bring develop a documentary series that focuses on the history and evolution of science fiction. The series is James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, and it will consist of six one-hour episodes.

Each episode will see Cameron introducing one of the “Big Questions” humanity has grappled with through history, delving into Science Fiction’s past to look at how the genre’s films, TV shows, books, and video games were born, and where the genre, and humanity, might be headed. Throughout, Cameron and his contemporaries debate the merits, meanings, and impacts of the films and novels that influenced them.

I love the idea of this series as it's something that is completely fascinating to me. As a longtime fan of the sci-fi genre, it will be awesome to get some additional historical insight into how it's evolved over the years. Who better to do that than Cameron!? When announcing the series, Cameron said:

“When I was a kid, I basically read any book with a spaceship on the cover and I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey many, many times. The movie inspired me to become a filmmaker. I liked the special effects, but I really loved the ideas and the questions behind them: How will the world end? Will technology destroy us? What does it mean to be human? These are subjects sci-fi has never been afraid to tackle.
“With this series, we are going back to the origins of sci-fi, following the DNA of these ideas back to the source. Without Jules Verne and H.G. Wells there wouldn’t have been Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, and without them, there wouldn’t be Lucas, Spielberg, Ridley Scott or me. As a filmmaker who specializes in science fiction, I’m interested in exploring the struggles and the triumphs that brought these incredible stories to life and seeing how art imitates life, as well as how science fiction imitates and sometimes informs science.”

The series is set to debut in 2018 on AMC, and I can't wait to check it out! On a side note, if Cameron keeps taking on side projects like this docu-series to take up his time, he'll never find the start shooting and finish his long-awaited Avatar sequels that he's already been working on for-ev-er.

Source: Deadline

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