Riverworld (2003)

Directed by

Kari Skogland

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

12

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pilot episode for a never-made series, this film is set in a strange afterlife where people from all eras of history awake along a vast river. Based on a famous book series, it follows a group of characters trying to understand the rules of this new world and find the source of the river.

intriguingthought-provokingmysteriousslow-pacedspeculativeatmosphericunsettlingphilosophical

What happens

Riverworld is a sci-fi/fantasy television film. A pilot episode for a series that was never produced, it aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003. It was loosely based on the Hugo Award-winning "Riverworld" saga by Philip José Farmer. Production began in 2001. It was rebooted in 2010 under the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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