Nightflyers

AMKC

So this just started shooting as a series in the new Troy studios in Limerick recently.
It's going to be a sci-fi psychological thriller.

Could be good. Has some good people working on it so hopefully it works out.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0209/939626-new-sci-fi-drama-nightflyers-blasts-off-in-limerick/

No idea when it will be released but it's something to look forward to.

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4C4r5P8jM

Premiering this fall, Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer, in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other – and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.

The Nightflyers cast includes Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Sam Strike (EastEnders), Maya Eshet (Teen Wolf), Angus Sampson (Fargo Season 2), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire), David Ajala (Falling Water) and Brían F. O’Byrne (Aquarius).

Slydice

That's the highest quality looking Sci-Fi I can remember from Limerick

Agent Coulson

It's no Space Truckers from Wicklow.

Slydice

Agent Coulson wrote: »

It's no Space Truckers from Wicklow.

AMKC

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4C4r5P8jM

Premiering this fall, Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer, in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other – and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.

The Nightflyers cast includes Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Sam Strike (EastEnders), Maya Eshet (Teen Wolf), Angus Sampson (Fargo Season 2), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire), David Ajala (Falling Water) and Brían F. O’Byrne (Aquarius).

I think that looks really good. Look forward to seeing that.

Slydice wrote: »

That's the highest quality looking Sci-Fi I can
remember from Limerick

It looks really good. Looking forward to it.

pixelburp

"It's like 'Psycho' In Space"

"It's like nothing you've seen before"

Uhmmm...

In any case, the actual trailer looks good, very slick and cinematic though not much to go on with the characters. Am a little surprised it took THIS long for another GRR Martin property to get greenlit though. You'd imagine there'll be a very large casual interest in this, from the name alone.

AMKC

pixelburp wrote: »

"It's like 'Psycho' In Space"

"It's like nothing you've seen before"

Uhmmm...

In any case, the actual trailer looks good, very slick and cinematic though not much to go on with the characters. Am a little surprised it took THIS long for another GRR Martin property to get greenlit though. You'd imagine there'll be a very large casual interest in this, from the name alone.

I really hope it does well. It is being shot some of it anyway in the old Dell factory in Limerick. So it's good for Limerick and for the tv/movie industry Ireland too if this does well.

Agent Coulson

It will be on Netflix everywhere outside the US.

AMKC

Agent Coulson wrote: »

It will be on Netflix everywhere outside the US.

Cool I will watch it on that other site then.

Slydice

Agent Coulson

expectationlost

event horizon, the cloverfield paradox etc

s7ryf3925pivug

Slydice wrote: »

That's the highest quality looking Sci-Fi I can remember from Limerick

Injection is drawn by a Limerick person. It is good. It looks like it will be a tv show too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_(comics)

pixelburp

Man they are really gorging on the GRR Martin kickbacks here; wouldn't hurt to have a trailer or promotion that lets folks know what the new show is, you know, about. Still have no proper clue as to what to expect here in terms of story or character. I get it SyFy, you got a Martin adaptation, give it a rest.

Slydice

Sold!

Slydice

Comic Con trailer

pixelburp

Ok, well that's the first proper look at the actual plot; looks interesting, definitely a dark psychological thriller; have already read the comparisons with Event Horizon.

Skerries

couple of Paddy's in there

Mr E

Limerick never looked so good.

Agent Coulson

Starts on December 2nd.

Slydice

trailers or clips?

JP Liz V1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

It will be on Netflix everywhere outside the US.

Has SyFy UK picked it up?

AMKC

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Has SyFy UK picked it up?

I would say if Netflicks has it its doubtful that it will be on SyFy too.

pixelburp

This is a show that has felt like it has been coming out for ages; to the point I was actually wondering had it come & gone and I missed it.

Dunno, beyond the Martin link I'm not sure what the big appeal or hook is here.

pixelburp

The first 5 minutes have been released; so anyone on the fence should get a good feel for whether it'll be their bag or not. I think I'm out; looks way too generic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfzEFx0NzCo

FreudianSlippers

Looks pretty poor to me too; made in Limerick though, so wouldn't be bad for the locale for people to watch the first season!

pixelburp

Yeah, between this in Limerick & Krypton apparently made in Belfast, seems like SyFy are dabbling in Irish productions.

GSRNBP

pixelburp wrote: »

Yeah, between this in Limerick & Krypton apparently made in Belfast, seems like SyFy are dabbling in Irish productions.

Actually SyFy is just the buyer of both shows. Nightflyers is Universal Cable Productions so it makes sense for SyFy (UCP and SyFy both being part of the NBC/GE/Universal/Comcast conglomerate) but it definitely was not specifically commissioned for SyFy. Not positive about Krypton, but I'm fairly sure it's also not commissioned by SyFy, as it's produced by one of the Warner companies and DC.

EoinMcLovin

GSRNBP wrote: »

Actually SyFy is just the buyer of both shows. Nightflyers is Universal Cable Productions so it makes sense for SyFy (UCP and SyFy both being part of the NBC/GE/Universal/Comcast conglomerate) but it definitely was not specifically commissioned for SyFy. Not positive about Krypton, but I'm fairly sure it's also not commissioned by SyFy, as it's produced by one of the Warner companies and DC.

Just checked the wiki page, Syfy just air it. Warners and DC are the production companies with Warner Bros the distributor for Krypton

Slydice

pixelburp wrote: »

The first 5 minutes have been released; so anyone on the fence should get a good feel for whether it'll be their bag or not. I think I'm out; looks way too generic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfzEFx0NzCo

My impression of the first 5 minutes is that the cutlery should've floated if she was gonna be floating around like that. A minor production blip.

I wouldn't base a first impression around that 5 minutes though.
The first two episodes will feel much different!

JohnFalstaff

Reviews are mixed so far, veering towards the negative overall but there seems to be enough in there to keep people interested:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nightflyers/s01/

Hopefully it secures a second season. It would be bad news for Troy Studios and Limerick if it is cancelled considering the investment and incentives the studio received locally from the Limerick Councils, and at a national level through Screen Ireland funding and tax breaks.

Agent Coulson

Anyone watch it?

It’s been out in the wild all day.

Slydice

My 1st impression was TV production level hard scifi. Thinking about the way people interact, it reminds me of B5 a little.

The size of the ship is confusing but I'd say they'll get around to explaining that.

Currently guessing

the Captain is AI and the threat is a .. Virus? AI

Agent Coulson

Also heads up it a daily episode release over the next 11 days according to Wikipedia.


No episode on the 7th or 8th.

pixelburp

I'm in no mad rush so I'll probably wait til it appears on Netflix tbh. Looks all right, but supernatural in space rarely works well together.

Agent Coulson

It arrives on Netflix tomorrow


So I'm guessing they will follow the daily release structure as well.



Isn't this the same release pattern SYFY did with 12 Monkeys.

Slydice

Thinking about what threw me in the B5 direction... I'm guessing it was more than the way the characters interact but also the

rating of telepaths by levels and them bringing one to see an alien. The name of the aliens even sounds a little like vorlon .. (volcryn)

EPAndlee

I actually thought this had aired and ended already but I shall gives it a watch now

stevenmu

I watched the first two episodes today. If you have to put a genre on it, it's a bit like if Stephen King rewrote The Ring, set it on a spaceship, it was directed by Kubrick and produced by J.J. Abrams. (except the security guards who were clearly auditioning to be villagers with pitchforks on GoT)

I mostly enjoyed it, but it has that continuous atmosphere of eerie dread and weirdness, and all the characters act as if they're already dead. It's somewhere between 2001 and Event Horizon, and that works in a feature length form but I don't know if it will work well on a TV format

s7ryf3925pivug

Agent Coulson wrote: »

It arrives on Netflix tomorrow


So I'm guessing they will follow the daily release structure as well.



Isn't this the same release pattern SYFY did with 12 Monkeys.

Not on Netflix now. Don't see anything online stating its release date.

Reviews are bad from viewers and critics - 6 on IMDB and 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not great for Troy Studios sadly, especially when a GRRM IP might give high expectations/be considered strong source material... Early days though lots of good shows have weak episodes right at the start.

FreudianSlippers

Slydice wrote: »

My impression of the first 5 minutes is that the cutlery should've floated if she was gonna be floating around like that. A minor production blip.

A minor production blip that doesn't cut it these days - you wouldn't see that on The Expanse!

keane2097

Vanessa Uninterested Wastebasket wrote: »

Not on Netflix now. Don't see anything online stating its release date.

Reviews are bad from viewers and critics - 6 on IMDB and 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not great for Troy Studios sadly, especially when a GRRM IP might give high expectations/be considered strong source material... Early days though lots of good shows have weak episodes right at the start.

Unless the reviews are saying that the production values are bad I don't think it reflects badly on Troy Studios. They presumably didn't write the show or do the casting?

Based on George R.R. Martin's novella and a series of short stories — and a same-titled 1987 film adaptation — SyFy's Nightflyers is a encyclopaedia of science fiction and horror cinema influences, but despite outstanding production values and some fine sequences of terror and body horror, it succeeds mainly at making you want to revisit the work that inspired it.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/nightflyers-george-rr-martin-syfy-review.html

s7ryf3925pivug

keane2097 wrote: »

Unless the reviews are saying that the production values are bad I don't think it reflects badly on Troy Studios. They presumably didn't write the show or do the casting?



https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/nightflyers-george-rr-martin-syfy-review.html

yeah they said the production values were bad. The consensus on RT refers to "low budget aesthetics".

keane2097

Vanessa Uninterested Wastebasket wrote: »

yeah they said the production values were bad. The consensus on RT refers to "low budget aesthetics".

Oh, that's a shame, the reviews I read seem to be fairly positive on that front at least.

Sure there’s extra blood, extra darkness, and extra effects (which are quite good, honestly — even the spider robot)

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/nightflyers-syfy-review-george-rr-martin-1202023374/

It does boast terrific special effects and an abundance of blood and gore, both of which are used generously

https://nypost.com/2018/11/29/nightflyers-on-syfy-fumbles-in-space/

I'll have to give it a spin myself later.

Agent Coulson

Vanessa Uninterested Wastebasket wrote: »

Not on Netflix now. Don't see anything online stating its release date.

I must have miss read that somewhere I guess they won't air it till Syfy are finished airing it in North America.

the_syco

Really liked the 1st episode. 2nd episode is also up on Amazon. Or so the internet claims. Yaaarrrr.

expectationlost

im not sure its the effects that are cheap but the story

a captain who you never meet in person hmm

yerman is very slow to think that it might be the aliens are up to something with the telepath, considering it was the whole reason he brought the telepath

Slydice

3: :eek: The

neck snap!

Story is developing fine. The reveal of

the mother.. hrmmm, I'm not sure how that'll go. I'd say Eris has the power to remove her whenever but doesn't cos she's his mother.

the_syco

expectationlost wrote: »

but the story

a captain who you never meet in person hmm

I'm assuming that that's because he's

AI, and thus the reason why he never leaves the ship.

expectationlost

also why start your big burn so close to earth?