All articles tagged with #time travel
Richard Kelly unveils The Philosophy of Time Travel, an 800+ page epistolary sequel to Donnie Darko told through Donnie’s parents’ transcripts and emails, planned as a foundation for future animation and live-action chapters, and arriving this fall to coincide with the film’s 25th anniversary.
Filmmaker Richard Kelly is writing Donnie Darko: The Philosophy of Time Travel, an ~800-page sequel novel set in 1988 after the original film, with plans to adapt it first into an animated/motion-capture film and later into a live-action sequel, published by Range Literary Publishing and aimed for a late-2026 release as the starting point for a broader return of the saga.
Filmmaker Richard Kelly is authoring an official Donnie Darko sequel as a book, The Philosophy of Time Travel: The Epic Sequel to the Motion Picture Donnie Darko, which takes place immediately after the film and follows 14 months after Donnie’s death through found documents and multiple perspectives; Kelly hopes the novel will spark future film sequels and potentially launch a multi‑movie franchise, with the cast potentially reuniting in the process, and pre-orders available via Variety.
An exploration of The End of Oak Street reveals a stealth Amblin homage wrapped in a time-travel twist: Denise and her family slip 20 minutes back to 1982, use a pizza-delivery ploy to save Greg, and inadvertently create two Jeannettes, echoing Back to the Future’s paradoxes while ending on a bittersweet note that the Oak Street neighborhood has irreversibly changed as the dinosaurs stay displaced.
A post-screening leak claims The End of Oak Street has no Cloverfield references, and JJ Abrams confirms the only tie to the Cloverfield universe is that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (star of 10 Cloverfield Lane) is involved; beyond that, the film appears to be a standalone sci‑fi about a suburban family transported to an unknown place with hints of time travel, arriving August 14 in theaters and IMAX, with Cloverfield’s future still unclear.
Physicists have long debated whether time travel could be achieved via wormholes. The piece traces ideas from Gödel's spacetime solution to Kip Thorne’s traversable-wormhole models that could permit timelike paths, while noting paradox concerns like the grandfather paradox. It explains self-consistent solutions and quantum treatment in which multiple outcomes coexist, yet Hawking’s chronology protection conjecture argues universal laws may prevent macroscopic time travel. The debate remains unsettled, balancing theoretical possibilities against fundamental physics safeguards.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 kicks off with a pulpy, time-warping mission: the Enterprise travels 65 million years into a Martian past where humans encounter dinosaurs and a Dol’Drm war on a fifth planet that sits where the asteroid belt should be. Cassell steals antimatter to wipe out the Dol’Drm, but the explosion reshapes Mars’ orbit and seeds the belt—an origin-story twist Spock ties to Olbers’ belt theory—raising existential questions about interfering with history. Pike ultimately chooses to let the Martians' assault proceed, suggesting humanity’s existence may hinge on this offbeat voyage. Dinosaurs, Martians and an origin-story twist make it a gleefully bold opener.
X-Men ’97 Season 2 threads Apocalypse through three eras—Ancient Egypt, a dystopian 40th century, and the 1990s—using time-travel to deepen character dynamics, introduce Cable’s era, and weave in elements from Age of Apocalypse while maintaining strong storytelling and top-tier animation.
Co-showrunners say revealing the pond’s origins would ruin the magic; it’s described as a healing tool rather than a sci-fi device, and the finale ends with Kat and Alice poised for another jump, leaving the pond and their time-travel journey open for future adventures.
In The Way Home's series finale, Casey is revealed to be Jacob and Abby’s child from the future, Elliot proposes to Kat, and Jacob and Abby’s wedding brings resolution for the founding families. Fern’s heartbreaking farewell, Del’s sense of closure, and Alice’s reconciliation with Evelyn (and feelings for Max) anchor the emotional updates, while Kat and Alice jump back into the pond, signaling another adventure and leaving the time-travel premise open-ended.
X-Men '97 Season 2 amps up the franchise with a time-travel narrative that splits the team across a dystopian future and ancient Egypt, introducing Apocalypse as the season’s formidable yet nuanced villain; the show improves its animation, deepens character dynamics (focusing less on Logan), and features standout set pieces like Jubilee’s action moment, earning praise for maintaining the series' blend of flashy superhero fun and emotional stakes ahead of its Disney+ premiere on July 1, 2026.
InXile reveals Clockwork Revolution, a time-bending first-person RPG set in Avalon, where Morgan Vanette uses the Chronometer to rewrite moments and reshape allies, enemies, and the city itself; players guide Prentice and a gang of Rotten Row Hooligans through branching realities as Lady Ironwood fights to preserve her power. The game launches in 2027 on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Steam, with Game Pass and Play Anywhere support.
A new physics study suggests that, within general relativity, closed timelike curves (CTCs) and post-selected CTCs could, in principle, allow messages to travel back in time. The idea echoes Interstellar’s plot and remains theoretical, with researchers planning photon-based experiments to test the concept while avoiding paradoxes through post-selection.
Matt Damon is in talks to star in a secretive new film from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels) for Universal, their first project since Everything Everywhere All at Once. After Ryan Gosling (and briefly Jack Black) were considered but could not fit the schedule due to a California tax-credit deadline, Damon stepped in to headline. The story reportedly blends global warming, time travel, and a two-timeline structure (1980s and present day) with teen leads in the 1980s timeline; production is set to begin in LA this summer as the team finalizes casting.
MIT researchers and collaborators show, in theory, that information could be sent to the past via quantum simulations of post-selected closed timelike curves (P-CTCs); they find backward transmission could, under certain noisy-channel conditions, be more efficient than forward, with self-consistent loops helping avoid paradoxes. The work is purely theoretical and does not involve real spacetime bending, but it extends ideas in quantum information and entanglement about time-like information flow.