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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four film series. The film was directed by Matt Shakman from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and the team of Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. It features an ensemble cast including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the titular team, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah Niles, Mark Gatiss, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson. The film is set in the 1960s of a retro-futuristic world which the Fantastic Four must protect from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus (Ineson).
Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe
Jumper
2008 science fiction film directed by Doug Liman
warp drive
theoretical superluminal propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek
The Orville
American television series
No Man's Sky
open-world survival video game in space released in 2016
Millennium Falcon
fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
stargate
portal device within the Stargate fictional universe
hyperspace
thumb|upright=1.3|Hyperspace travel is sometimes depicted as a starfield that streaks toward the viewer. A visual effect like this was first used in the 1974 film Dark Star (film)|Dark Star, and it became a popular cinematic depiction, with a similar effect being used in the Star Wars franchise.
Total Annihilation
1997 video game
Elite Dangerous
2014 space trading and combat simulator
Macross
is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime media franchise, created by Studio Nue (most prominently mecha designer, writer and producer Shōji Kawamori) and Artland in 1982. The franchise features a fictional history of Earth and the human race after the year 1999, as well as the history of humanoid civilization in the Milky Way. It consists of four TV series, nine movies, six OVAs, and multiple light novel and manga series, all sponsored by , in addition to 40 video games set in the Macross universe, two crossover games, and a wide variety of physical merchandise.
FTL: Faster Than Light
2012 space combat video game
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1980 novel by Frederik Pohl
The Dosadi Experiment
1977 novel by Frank Herbert
Known Space
fictional universe created by Larry Niven
Spaceballs: The New One
upcoming film directed by Josh Greenbaum
Lensman series
serial science fiction space opera
Homeward Bound
2004 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove
The Algebraist
2004 novel by Iain M. Banks
Singularity Sky
2003 novel by Charles Stross
The Long Journey Home
2017 video game