A Thousand Suns

[mwynn]

ICE - A Thousand Suns / Episode 1 - YouTube

[mwynn]

What is A Thousand Suns?

A Thousand Suns is a science fiction anthology series of short stories that explores visions of humanity’s future, shaped by the actions of our world today: a gateway to our hopes, dreams and nightmares.

Our ambition was to build a platform for exciting new filmmakers with unique voices to create stories set wherever their imaginations take them. Imagine if The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror had a mutant offspring with Heavy Metal. Each story stands alone -- they can be funny, scary, emotional or horrifying -- but together all the stories tell one story: mankind’s struggle to survive in a universe that seems to want us extinct.

These first six episodes are just the beginning. Whether they’re three minutes or thirty minutes long, we have plans for many more episodes to come. Infinite stories that span infinite worlds.


Who are we?

The series was created by Macgregor and produced by BlackMilk Studio. The first six episodes were directed by Ruairi Robinson, Macgregor, Tyson Wade Johnston and Tim Hyten, written in collaboration with screenwriter Philip Gelatt.

Why did we make A Thousand Suns?

Tired of endless remakes and sequels and bland corporate IP mulch? Well, so are we. We are a collective of filmmakers who couldn't just sit idly by while our favorite genre gathered dust. We're on a mission: to revive the kind of original, mind-bending, thought-provoking sci-fi we grew up on.

How did we make A Thousand Suns?

We’ve all been repeatedly told delivering big science fiction on a budget “isn’t possible”, so we decided to go ahead and do it anyway. We didn’t ask for money or permission -- we put everything we had into this. Financing the shorts ourselves, we didn’t have the budget to make a hundred million dollar movie -- but what we knew we could make short films that felt like scenes from hundred million dollar movies if we just worked ourselves to the bone.

What’s next for A thousand suns?
This is just the beginning.

We’ve got more tales to tell, more worlds to explore. We’d love to keep making these as a streaming series and also we have standalone feature film length stories based on some of these episodes that would play great on the big screen.

But, we could use a little boost to keep our afterburners firing, since we aren’t made of money. So if you work at a streamer or a movie studio, tell your boss that you are their boss now, and you are greenlighting this.



When will A thousand suns be released?

A Thousand Suns is blasting off on April 15th, 2024.

Catch all the cosmic nightmares on our website, YouTube, and Instagram. And please, spread the word. Especially to people with lots of money.

A THOUSAND SUNS official website
1Ksuns.com

YouTube

DEAL - A Thousand Suns / Episode 4 - YouTube

Instagram
instagram.com/studioblackmilk/

Stills
shorturl.at/oBIQZ

[John1701D]

That looked freaking gorgeous. Can't wait to rewatch it at home and not my phone.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by John1701D

That looked freaking gorgeous. Can't wait to rewatch it at home and not my phone.

Yeah this is that original stuff people keep talking about. An indie team doing it on their own.

[Usure]

after watching episode 1, looking forward to more.

[Fiffy]

Not bad. I wish they'd upload them in better quality to the video stores. I'd happily pay a few bucks, if only to support them.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Fiffy

Not bad. I wish they'd upload them in better quality to the video stores. I'd happily pay a few bucks, if only to support them.

https://www.1ksuns.com/episodes

[Fiffy]

Originally Posted by mwynn

https://www.1ksuns.com/episodes

Those are the same bitrate-starved Youtube videos.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Fiffy

Those are the same bitrate-starved Youtube videos.

I did not click on it and did not notice they were embeded.

There is the contact e-mail on the page if you want to ask if they will have better versions.

[mwynn]

The Deal is amazing.

[mwynn]

Well that was unexpected.

BUG - A Thousand Suns / Episode 5 - YouTube

[kevin87]

Watched these earlier, and they're good... but "Exodus" is the only one that actually felt like a proper short film, the rest feel like either a random movie clip or the start of a movie or even a proof-of-concept pitch to get a full movie made.

[mwynn]

Series Overview - The making of A Thousand Suns - YouTube