Guardians Of The Planet

Chris Pratt is summoned 30 years through time to save the world in a new action movie

- Steven Perkins

NEW CI-FI

The Tomorrow War

From Fri 2 July, Amazon Prime Video

In the year 2051, Earth is under attack from a ravenous race of aliens known as the ‘white spikes’ in Amazon Prime Video’s sci-fi feature film The Tomorrow War – and the humans are losing badly.

In a desperate bid to save humanity from extinction, a group of soldiers travels back 30 years in time – arriving on the pitch in the middle of a global football tournament for maximum impact – to ask the people of 2021 to stand beside them and fight.

At first, every nation sends the best of their military to the future, but with many soldiers not meeting the requirements for the time jump, civilians are drafted into battle as well.

With only a handful of those who fight in the future managing to return home alive, the range of the draft expands – and eventually, Dan Forester (Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt), a former soldier currently working as a schoolteacher, is selected for duty.

‘Everyone who goes into the future is over the age of 30, and everyone who comes back to train us is under 30 because you can’t live in both timelines at the same time – they’re drafting people who are going to be dead in 2051,’ says Pratt. ‘So you’re dealing with people who are making decisions not based on the life that they could lead, but rather the world that they’re leaving for their children.’