Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity
Photo Credit: Kharen Hill/ABC
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Premiered:
- Network: ABC
- Category: Series
- Genre: Drama
- Type: Live Action
- Concept:Inspired by the 2004 docudrama (Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets)
- Subject Matter: Science Fiction
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Plot Synopsis
This space thriller is set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts (four women and four men) from five countries undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strange karmic effect on the present. Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.
Cast
- Ron Livingston - Maddux Donner
- Laura Harris - Zoe Barnes
- Malik Yoba - Ted Shaw
- Christina Cox - Jen Crane
- Florentine Lahme - Nadia Schilling
- Paula Garces - Paula Morales
- Eyal Podell - Dr. Evram Mintz
- Dylan Taylor - Steve Wassenfelder
- Andrew Airlie - Mike Goss
- Karen LeBlanc - Eve Shaw
- Zahf Paroo - Ajay Sharma
- Maxim Roy - Dr. Claire Dereux
Production & Distribution
- Produced by Fox Television Studios
- Produced by Omni Film Productions
- In association with CTV
- In association with ProSieben