Exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. The British series Black Mirror delves into anxiety about the technological developments dealt with in an alternative reality or near future. Each episode is unique. In one, you may enter a reality in which people have chips in their heads that record all events. In another, antagonist Robert Daly imprisons and abuses avatars of colleagues in a virtual world he may not be able to control. (Netflix)
An ex-CIA agent and a programmer try to save lives with surveillance A.I. that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. Person of Interest fully transitioned to a science fiction drama in Season 2, questioning super-intelligence and other issues at the heart of artificial intelligence. (Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play)
Lost in Space is a rethink of the legendary 1965 series following a family of colonists whose spaceship veers off course. In 2046, the Robinson family is sent to colonize the Alpha Centauri star system. An alien robot breaches the Resolute's hull, however and they crash into a nearby planet. (Netflix)
A bounty hunter travels to the outer reaches of the galaxy in The Mandalorian, a space western created by director Jon Favreau (The Wolf of Wall Street). It is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, and critics and fans love every step. Pedro Pascal (Narcos) plays the masked hero. (Disney+)
Set in a parallel present, the trendy gadget for busy families is a Synth - a humanoid. Humans follows one particular family living in the suburbs with a machine that may not be content to be just their servant. (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV)
Caleb, a programmer for a search engine company, participates in an experiment to evaluate the human qualities of a humanoid A.I. Ava is far more clever than Caleb realizes, however, and he finds himself attracted to a robot whose memory will soon be wiped out. (Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play)
Los Angeles Police Officer K (Ryan Gosling) unearths a secret that could plunge society into chaos. He sets out to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), an ex-blade runner who's been missing for 30 years. The 2017 film is the sequel to the not-to-be-missed 1982 Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner. (Amazon Prime, Hulu, Google Play, Apple iTunes, HBO Max)
joaquin Phoenix star as the lonely writer Theodore Twombly who falls for Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), a computer operating system with accelerated learning capabilities. Romance blooms but is it more than a love of gadgets?
This Australian film explores the bond between a robot mother and child living in a shelter after the end of the world. I Am Mother examines the love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence in a compelling, enjoyable, watchable film. (Netflix)
Having been in development for three years, the film began production on 12 February 2017[2] and was originally set for release in 2019.[3][4] After a long delay, the film opened the 46th Hong Kong International Film Festival on 15 August 2022[5] and released theatrically on 25 August 2022 in Hong Kong.[6]
In 2055,[8] wars have ravaged the Earth due to the prevalent use of advanced military robots, and global warming and pollution have destroyed the environment and ruined the atmosphere. As a result, many people are born with birth defects and die, and large domes known as Skynets are built to protect the surviving cities on Earth. During the construction of the Skynet over B-16 (a futuristic Hong Kong), a meteor lands in the city and a giant alien plant, later named Pandora, emerges and causes devastation to the area around it as it takes root. Pandora grows rapidly when there is rain, taking over more of the city every time it does so; however, it is discovered that the plant can also purify the polluted air. ASU's (a local military force) lead scientist, Dr Chan, finds a way to alter the plant's genome to stop Pandora from growing further while also letting it continue to repair the atmosphere.
Tyler and his friend Johnson Cheng, soldiers working for the ASU, are tasked with locating Pandora's pistil and delivering a "gene bullet" virus that will neutralize its growth. Colonel Tam is sent to oversee the operation, but she has a backup plan to bomb Pandora from the air, which would destroy the plant but could potentially kill a hundred and sixty thousand people in the surrounding area. Cheng heavily opposes the idea of sacrificing civilians and losing their best chance to fix the atmosphere, and launches the mission before two rainstorms hit the city. Privates Connor and Lincoln join Tyler on the mission as they escort the Orca transport aircraft carrying the gene bullet virus into the operation area. During the mission, Sean Li, the commander in chief of B-16 and the architect of the Skynet project, sabotages the Orca by remotely taking control of its complement of military robots as soon as the first storm hits, and it crashes into a building. Damaged by Pandora's tendrils, Tyler's aircraft crashes after locating the area where the pistil is, and Lincoln is left critically injured.
Connor and Tyler look for medical supplies at an abandoned hospital, where they are attacked by mantis-like creatures which kill Lincoln. Connor hides in the mortuary while Tyler retreats to an emergency room where he rescues an orphaned girl, Pansy, who reminds Tyler of his daughter Sissy, who had died of pollution-caused illness. Cheng, arriving in an armoured car driven by former-squad mate Skunk, uses a hatchet to kill most of the mantis-like creatures while Tyler rescues Connor. The survivors escape the hospital and head to the building where the Orca crashed, finding the last intact gene bullet capsule and evidence that Li had sabotaged the mission in order to allow Pandora to be destroyed and the construction of his Skynets to continue. The team contact Li, saying that they have the evidence of his sabotage, but Li proposes a challenge: to beat him, they will have to go against the military robots under his control.
As the team race towards the location of the pistil, Li sends several tank-like and humanoid robots after the armoured car. As Skunk drives on, Tyler, Connor and Cheng fight off the robots, and Cheng becomes separated from the group after being thrown out of the car. The others arrive at the location where the pistil is and encounter a large crab-like robot, with its pulse weapon destroying the armoured car. Connor, Skunk and Tyler fight off more humanoid robots and destroy the crab-like robot, and Cheng returns and saves Pansy. Cheng enters the pistil chamber just as Pandora begins to grow uncontrollably as the second storm hits. Cheng unleashes the gene bullet virus onto Pandora, stopping it from growing further. Colonel Tam suspends the backup plan after discovering Li's sabotage, and Li commits suicide before she can arrest him. Afterwards, with the state of the atmosphere greatly improving, Tyler accepts a mission on the moon while Skunk and Cheng finish rebuilding the armoured car.
The film was first announced in May 2015 under the title Virtus to be directed by Benny Chan and starring Louis Koo. Koo's film production company, One Cool Film Production worked on the film's visual effects, under a budget of HK$300 million.[9][6] Although filming was set to begin in the end of 2015, a teaser trailer was released which featured Koo in a robot suit.[10]
Production began on 12 February 2017 on a set in Shenzhen which took two months to build. The film is directed by visual effects artist Ng Yuen-fai, who worked on the special effects for The Warlords, Bodyguards and Assassins and The White Storm. Aside from Koo, the cast also includes Sean Lau and Philip Keung, alongside newcomer actors Kevin Chu, Ng Siu-hin and Tony Wu.[2][11] In March 2017, One Cool Film Production released a making of featurette teaser displaying its new title, Warriors of Future, and revealing the film's 36 month pre-production and its new budget of US$45 million. According to the teaser, production for the film is slated to take 4 months to complete while post-production will take 18 months.[12] The film's four month shoot in Shenzhen completed in June 2017 and resumed its shoot in Hong Kong in August 2017.[13] In March 2018, a new teaser trailer for the film was released. Aside from previous announced cast members, the trailer also featured new cast members such as Carina Lau, Nick Cheung and Tse Kwan-ho.[8] On the same day, it was also reported that the film's production has increased to US$56 million.[1] In March 2019, One Cool Film Production released a new trailer for the film.[14]