Screamers is a 1995 dystopian science fiction film directed by Christian Duguay based on the short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick. Screamers stars Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, and Jennifer Rubin. It premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 1995 and was released in the United States on January 26, 1996.
Screamers is set in the year 2078 on the planet Sirius 6B, a once thriving commercial hub and mining colon...
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Screamers is a 1995 dystopian science fiction film directed by Christian Duguay based on the short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick. Screamers stars Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, and Jennifer Rubin. It premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 1995 and was released in the United States on January 26, 1996.
Screamers is set in the year 2078 on the planet Sirius 6B, a once thriving commercial hub and mining colony now reduced to a battle-torn wasteland by a prolonged war between the colony's miners and their former employers, the New Economic Block.
Ten years after the discovery of berynium on Sirius 6B a federation of the colony's miners, called the Alliance, and scientists began to organize opposition to the mining of the substance. They demanded that further N.E.B. activities on the planet be halted to preserve the colony's safety. The N.E.B.'s response was to declare war against The Alliance and those supporting its activities. During the first...
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