Here’s an independent movie we missed when it was released in 2007. Postcards from the Future is a handsome look (see video trailer) at how a future mission to Mars might be carried out in the not-too-distant decades ahead, using the Moon as a prequel to the big jump across interplanetary space.
In practical terms, a Mars mission is looking further away with every passing moment - but it’s still good to dream. And once that elusive replacement for chemical rockets is perfected, the universe will be ours to explore - but not yet, more’s the pity.
When released, Postcards picked up armfuls of awards, not least for its excellent cgi effects. The hardware star of the movie (pictured above) is the massive Coronado, a spacecraft that comes complete with a trio of dish-shaped Mars landers, which look remarkably like scaled-up versions of the British Beagle 2 probe, lost on Mars approach in December 2003.
Postcards from the Future was shot in HD and there’s a DVD available via the website here. It makes good viewing for cgi fans.
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