What Do You Get When You Mix NASA With Two Captain Kirks?

You get what could potentially be a huge box-office bomb called Quantum Quest. Here’s the press release that came along with the movie trailer (via Topless Robot):

“Quantum Quest is a sci-fi action film set in a scientifically accurate rendering of our solar system in 3-D stereoscopic. Visually, the film blends computer animation with billions of dollars of fantastic images captured during recent NASA space explorations including the international Cassini Huygens mission. The audience is taken on a simulated solar safari, exploring the outer planets and moons of our solar system such as Titan, a moon of Saturn that has rainfall, rivers, and giant lakes of natural gas.

Quantum Quest’s A-list voice cast includes two Captain Kirks (William Shatner and Chris Pine), two Jedi Knights (Mark Hamill and Samuel L. Jackson) and two Darth Vaders (James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen) – a first for Hollywood and a first for the galaxy.

It is the first time that NASA’s JPL has ever initiated a film project and the first time that famed Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the surface of the Moon, has participated in a feature film, lending his voice to one of the characters.”

Sounds harmless, right? You’ve got cool-looking NASA planet and space visuals, and two Captain Kirks and the Joker doing voices. Here’s the plot in a nutshell:

“DAVE (Chris Pine) is a photon, a being of light, who lives in Sun City, located at the core of the Sun. Sun City is populated by Photons, Neutrinos, and Proton citizens, all living in harmony. Dave is forced from the Sun and drawn into an epic battle between THE CORE (William Shatner, the embodiment of the Sun) and THE VOID (Mark Hamill, the embodiment of nothingness, he is that which existed before the universe was born). Dave’s quest is to save his people, the Cassini Space craft, and ultimately humanity from annihilation. FEAR (Samuel L. Jackson), IGNORANCE (Tom Kenny), MORONIC (Jason Alexander), and ZERO (Doug Jones) seek to stop Dave from fulfilling his destiny.”

This kinda reminds me of another movie set in a fantasy realm. Also, who the hell would name a character MORONIC? The worst, however, is when you see what’s below….

Woe to the local magazine who has to put up a cover feature for this f***ing Delgo rip-off. Hell, this makes Delgo look like Avatar in retrospect.

1 Response to “What Do You Get When You Mix NASA With Two Captain Kirks?”

  1. Alphonse says:

    Don’t forget we have the voice actor for Starscream (Transformers Animated) / Spongebob Squarepants’ Tom Kenny added into the mix here.

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