Lost in Space movie storyline. In the year 2058, the Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution and global warming! Professor John Robinson, lead scientist of the Jupiter 2 Mission, will lead his family to the habitable planet Alpha Prime to prep it for colonization.
The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyperdrive that allows faster-than-light travel, which will eventually be employed to evacuate the citizens of Earth. However hypergates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide stable points of departure and arrival. Dr. Zachary Smith is bribed by a terrorist organization to sabotage the mission, and ends up an unwilling stowaway as the ship blasts off.
Lost in Space is a 1998 American science fiction adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, and Gary Oldman. The film was shot in London and Shepperton, and produced by New Line Cinema. The plot is adapted from the 1965–1968 CBS television series Lost in Space. The film focuses on the Robinson family, who undertake a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home.
About the Story
In the year 2058, Earth will soon be uninhabitable due to irreversible effects of pollution. In an effort to save humanity, the United Global Space Force (UGSF) elects to send Professor John Robinson and his family—wife Maureen, daughters Judy and Penny, and young prodigy son Will—on a 10-year mission to complete the construction of a hypergate over an inhabitable planet, Alpha-One, allowing the population of Earth to instantly travel to and populate a new home.
Initially, Penny is resistant to leaving: rebelling by breaking curfew, while Will’s prize-winning science experiment involving time travel goes largely unnoticed by the family patriarch. Global Sedition, a terrorist group against the mission, assassinates the Jupiter II’s pilot, and hotshot fighter pilot Major Don West is instead recruited to fly their ship—much to his chagrin.
Doctor Zachary Smith, the family’s physician, turns out to be a spy for the Sedition who sabotages the ship’s maintenance robot before launch, but is betrayed by his cohorts and left unconscious as an unwitting stowaway as the ship launches and the family enters cryosleep for the journey. The robot activates soon after they are asleep, and following its corrupted programming, begins to destroy the navigation and guidance systems, en route to destroying the family itself.
Smith awakens the sleeping Robinsons and their pilot West, who manages to subdue the robot; yet due to the robot’s actions, the ship is falling uncontrollably into the sun. Using the experimental hyperdrive, which has an unpredictable trajectory without a hypergate to go through, the ship is transported through hyperspace to a remote and uncharted part of the universe, where their known star charts are useless.
Finding strange distortions in space, the crew boards a wayward vessel, with Will controlling the now-modified robot by remote-control to aid them. Finding technology more advanced than theirs, along with a camouflaging creature whom Penny calls “Blarp,” they are attacked by alien spider-like creatures; in their escape, Dr. Smith is bitten by one of them. Pilot West ignores orders and destroys the vessel to eradicate the spiders, and as a result, the ship crash-lands on a nearby planet—where the distortions seemingly continue.
Young Will theorizes that they are distortions in time; in fact, they are his science experiment’s predicted results. His father, however, frustrates Will by ignoring his input. His father and West head off to explore one of these time bubbles, and encounter future versions of Will and Smith, the latter having been unwittingly transformed by the spider bite into a kind of anthropomorphic creature.
The future Will explains that the spiders had attacked after his father and West had left them, and that Maureen, Penny and Judy were all killed; the transformed Dr. Smith had been protecting Will ever since. Constructing a time machine of his own, Will intends to go back to Earth prior to the launch of Jupiter II, and prevent it from happening.
Lost in Space (1998)
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson, Marta Kristen, Jared Harris, Angela Cartwright
Screenplay by: Akiva Goldsman
Production Design by: Norman Garwood
Cinematography by: Peter Levy
Film Editing by: Ray Lovejoy
Costume Design by: Vin Burnham
Set Decoration by: Anna Pinnock
Art Direction by: Steven Lawrence, David Lee, Keith Pain, Nick Palmer
Music by: Bruce Broughton
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some intense sci-fi action.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: April 3, 1998
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