Escape 2120
- written and directed by Brian K. Bennett
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Escape 2120 , written and directed by Brian K. Bennett (premiered at the Peoples Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio, 10 July 2020).
A young man, orphaned as a child, is taken in by an elderly couple who want his help traveling a century into the future.
—from publicity material
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase “suspended animation.” Well, forget everything you knew about that. Thats not what happens here, but its close enough.
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- Time Periods
- Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): timeline model. can dave change the past?
- Circa AD 1600 to 1699: coffin time machine
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Dave, Doc, and Sally’s home time: 2120
- Circa AD 2100 to 2199: destination time for Doc and Sally; also the century that Dave overshoots and later returns to
- Far Future: Dave overshoots to the 2874.
- Themes
- Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.
- Money Difficulties: Fortunately: You won’t find me serving anything potent enough to need credits.
- The Question is “When?”: It's not so much where, but when.
- Sent to Wrong Time!: Dave overshoots.
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- Escape 2120 , written and directed by Brian K. Bennett (premiered at the Peoples Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio, 10 July 2020).
Previous Works
adapted from The Magician’s Horses (2015)
Indexer Notes
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- Classification—Although the time travel to the future is mere suspended animation, more or less, the ending has some actual time travel.
- Error—Their calculation of the number of seconds in a century (roughly 52 million) seems to be off by a factor of about 60.