During the Dragoncon Q&A, Ben mentioned that the MISC Endeavor draws inspiration from the Valley Forge in the movie Silent Running. I love this movie and wonder if you have any other classic movies that we'll see homages to?asked by Zodiac Medicae
TL;DRRoberts says yes, more sci-fi movie homages will appear, citing the existing 2001-style commercial and Blade Runner-like ArcCorp, and naming several other films and shows as inspirations.
Well, I mean you've already seen some. You've seen the Constellation commercial which is an absolute homage to 2001 with the very famous time cut of throwing the bone up and turning into a space station and a ship docking with a space station and I definitely think that you'll see lots of sci-fi homages whether it's to Star Wars which obviously a fair number of people here are fans of. Things like Battlestar Galactica. Things like Firefly/Serenity, Aliens, Alien, Blade Runner. I mean, you can see some of the stuff that we've been doing for ArcCorp and you can think, "Ah... maybe a little bit of Blade Runner." Today I was just looking at some stuff. We were kind of playing around with some ship ideas and designs and we were looking at the Eagle in Space 1999. So, yeah there will be lots of stuff out there. There's plenty of great sci-fi movies. You know, there's some other stuff... Like, I don't know if any of you guys have seen Sunshine – that's a Danny Boyle movie, it's actually quite an underrated movie. It's really good and it had a really great ship design in it.All I can say is, yes we will have quite a few homages as we go on and it will be kind of fun. We do it because we like it, everyone here are sci-fi fans and I think most of you guys are.