📅 Exclusive: 28 Years Later Creators Share Their Terrifying Vision

Isn’t it strange how science fiction stories in film and on television can reflect our own modern world, even when the speculative aspects of the narrative differ so wildly from reality? Such is the theme of today’s newsletter, which explores how relevant the backwards-looking tale of 28 Years Later is to humanity’s all-too-real post-COVID existence and why a slogan from Andor’s rebel forces showed up on protest signs in last weekend’s “No Kings” demonstrations.

This phenomenon is nothing new. Science fiction has been playing on the what-ifs of societal fears since the Industrial Age began, not to mention all of the speculative tales that sprung from the advent of the atomic bomb or the suspicions of the Cold War. And often the futuristic technology depicted in sci-fi (Star Trek communicators as flip phones, anyone?) ends up being developed for real.

Sometimes, anyway. We won’t mention the pneumatic tubes used in Asimov’s Foundation series in place of the Internet…

— Michael Ahr, Newsletter Editor

IN THIS ISSUE

• Our exclusive interview with the creatives behind 28 Years Later 🎬

• A reflection on how an Andor slogan ended up on protest signs 📣

• A celebration of the 8th anniversary of Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War 🎮

• …and more!