By Travis Johnson
Cerulean is an upcoming science fiction comic book/television series/feature film from US-based artist Tani Kunikate (Star Wars: Episode VIII, Paradise Lost, Jupiter Ascending, The Matrix) working with Australian dancer/model/performer, Dani Swan. A high concept, sweeping space opera, the official precis describes it thusly:
A mortally wounded young woman discovers that she is inexorably bound to the same crashed prototype spaceship that just led the successful but remarkably benevolent invasion of Earth.
Now relentlessly hunted across the galaxy, her makeshift crew and sentient ship must decipher the universe’s greatest mysteries before warring alien forces tear the universe apart.
It certainly sounds ambitious. While these days the phrase “makeshift crew” tends to put one firmly in mind of Firefly, the scope and inherent SF weirdness share a little DNA with the old Canadian/German cosmic adventure series, Lexx.
Kunikate and Swan will be making the scene at the opening night of the 2016 SciFi Film Festival this Wednesday, October 19, at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick in Sydney. They’ll then be giving a special free presentation on the Cerulean project at the AFTRS Theatre on Saturday, October 22 between 12-2pm.
