Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror all have a lot in common. It's that they have fantastical characters and situations that are not necessarily easily acceptable in reality—no matter how much some may fantasize living through a zombie breakout in a The Walking Dead episode.
That doesn't mean that all these elements in series and movies the likes of The Walking Dead, Avatar, Star Wars, and even The Hunger Games aren't grounded in some form in some kind of truth. This is what filmmaker James Cameron aims to explore in his new docu-series.
AMC announced (via Comicbook.com) that the new series, titled for now as James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, will explore the science that goes into these works. For instance: is there even a science to how The Walking Dead's breakout happened? We did just suddenly find ourselves seeing from Rick's perspective the world going haywire while he was stuck in the hospital during the very first season.
AMC has also provided a quick synopsis of the new series:
"From Star Wars and Avatar to The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, sci-fi has become a cornerstone of pop culture. In each episode of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, Cameron introduces one of the Big Questions that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages, and reaches back into sci-fi's past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born, and where the genre—and our species—might be going in the future. Cameron and his contemporaries, who have helped to fuel sci-fi's spectacular growth over the last several decades, debate the merits, meanings, and impacts of the films and novels that influenced them."
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction currently has no release date as of yet.
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