{"id":2115473,"date":"2025-10-25T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115473"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:55:31","slug":"in-orion-a-tense-sci-fi-two-hander-serves-as-sharp-social-allegory-we-dont-have-absolute-truth-anymore-in-this-world-filmquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/in-orion-a-tense-sci-fi-two-hander-serves-as-sharp-social-allegory-we-dont-have-absolute-truth-anymore-in-this-world-filmquest\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Orion,\u2019 a Tense Sci-Fi Two-Hander Serves as Sharp Social Allegory: We Don\u2019t Have \u2018Absolute Truth Anymore in This World\u2019 \u2014\u00a0FilmQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">While \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13173962\/\">Orion<\/a>\u201d is an ambitious indie space saga, its examination of human nature is decidedly earthbound.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000530\/\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a> as Jim, a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1086423\/\">NASA<\/a> bigwig tasked with helping <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0577139\/\">Apollo<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3216408\/\">Drew Van Acker<\/a>), an astronaut with memory loss, figure out what happened to cause his ship to crash and leave the other crew dead. Their back-and-forth makes up the core of the film, as twists, turns and discoveries gradually unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9218697\/\">Jaco Bouwer<\/a> found plenty of grounded elements in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9879966\/\">Anne Vithayathil<\/a>\u2019s script for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13173962\/\">Orion<\/a>.\u201d Audiences will set sail on the film\u2019s maiden voyage when it has its world premiere at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0532163\/\">FilmQuest<\/a> in Provo, Utah, on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we have an absolute truth anymore in this world,\u201d he says. \u201cThis really touches on that without being super on the nose. Science fiction intrigues me a lot. I like the genre because it\u2019s a little bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While \u201cOrion\u201d is an ambitious indie space saga, its examination of human nature is decidedly earthbound. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Jim, a NASA bigwig tasked with helping Apollo (Drew Van Acker), an astronaut with memory loss, figure out what happened to cause his ship to crash and leave the other crew dead. 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