In the 2020s, if you see a sci-fi movie stacked with a ton of Hollywood A-listers, there’s at least a 50 percent chance you’re dealing with some kind of franchise — an MCU flick, maybe, or at least a powerhouse like Dune. This is another way of saying: it seems unlikely a movie like this one would be made today. Or, if it were, that it would be anything other than a prestige Amazon Prime sci-fi series, with a much less star-studded cast.
