{"id":16190,"date":"2018-06-12T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:27:17","slug":"videos-the-expanse-is-saved-sean-penn-heads-to-mars-first-trailer-for-first-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16190","title":{"rendered":"Videos: &#8220;The Expanse&#8221; is saved + Sean Penn heads to Mars + First trailer for &#8220;First Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/SolarSciFi\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Sci-Fi<\/a> (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hard_science_fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hard science fiction<\/a> involving near-term scenarios within our solar system) has gone big time in the past few years with the major financial successes of the films <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1454468\/\" target=\"_d\">Gravity<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3659388\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_d\">The Martian<\/a><\/em>. The TV series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3230854\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Expanse<\/a><\/em>, which depicts conflicts among settlers of Mars, the Asteroid Belt, and Earth, has\u00a0lasted 3 seasons on the SyFy Channel and will now continue on Amazon Prime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/amazon-studios-chief-recounts-jeff-bezos-dinnertime-push-save-expanse\/\" target=\"_d\">Amazon Studios\u2019 chief recounts Jeff Bezos\u2019 push to save \u2018The Expanse\u2019 \u2013 GeekWire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/expanse-safe-jeff-bezos-says-amazon-will-pick-sci-fi-tv-saga-crowd-goes-wild\/\" target=\"_d\">Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga \u2018The Expanse\u2019 \u2013 GeekWire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydKmedH336Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sean Penn will headline a new TV series on Hulu called &#8220;<em>The First<\/em>&#8221; about humans going to Mars :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/06\/the-first-hulu-sean-penn-mars-tv-series-beau-willimon-1201973038\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The First (Hulu): Sean Penn\u2019s Mars TV Series Debuts First Plot Details | IndieWire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Set in the 2030s, the eight-episode first season is mainly set on Earth as the astronauts prepare for the journey to the red planet and NASA forms a partnership with a private company to support the trip.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_First_(TV_series)\" target=\"_d\">The First (TV series) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7412482\/\" target=\"_d\">The First (TV Series 2018\u2013 ) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on the Solar Sci-Reality front, the film\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Man<\/a><\/em>\u00a0with Ryan Gosling looks to be an epic re-telling of how Neil Armstrong came to take that first step onto the lunar surface:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9Y7DTCn7Cc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film is to be released in the fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=electronics&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=b9b6bdfedae91c076b1ee00a49031c97&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar Sci-Fi (i.e. hard science fiction involving near-term scenarios within our solar system) has gone big time in the past few years with the major financial successes of the films Gravity and\u00a0The Martian. The TV series The Expanse, which depicts conflicts among settlers of Mars, the Asteroid Belt, and Earth, has\u00a0lasted 3 seasons on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: &#8220;The Expanse&#8221; is saved + Sean Penn heads to Mars + First trailer for &#8220;First Man&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4d8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3486,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3486","url_meta":{"origin":16190,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;The Expanse&#8221; &#8211; a solar sci-fi book series","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Patrick Chiles, author of Perigee, recommends the series The Expanse as a good addition to the Solar Sci-Fi book list. 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