Riveting Trailer For Intense-Looking Sci-Fi Film SOMNUS

I’ve got a great trailer you've gotta watch for an upcoming sci-fi film called Somnus. The movie was directed by Chris Reading from a script he co-wrote with Russell Owen

The story follows the crew of “an aging cargo ship on their final mission working the monotonous Earth-Mars shipping route. Malfunctions aboard the ship force a change of course to Somnus, a remote asteroid colony. The crew soon discovers the inhabitants of the colony have a dark past, and troubling plans for the future of mankind.”

This is the first feature film that Reading has made and it looks like it could be a pretty awesome movie! According to the press release, the film was inspired by the iconic work of Douglas Trumbull in such films as 2001:  A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Reading also wanted to use practical effect techniques to make the movie and shot on location and using models as much as possible. He even shot the interior of the ship using decommissioned military aircraft at the East Midland Aeropark.

The film stars Meryl Griffiths (The Missing Hand), Marcus McMahon (A Helical), Mac McDonald (Shooter), and Jennifer Moylan-Taylor (Guardians of the Galaxy). Epic Pictures will release the film sometime this year, and I’m looking forward to it!

When a deep space cargo vessel is forced to change course to the remote asteroid colony Somnus, the crew soon discover the colony's survivors are a threat to the very existence of mankind.

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