jostle some dream gum in your human face , because the first trailer for Syfy ’s TV movie Riverworld is out . Watch the half - nakedTahmoh Penikettget rack by aristocratical Man in the version of Philip José Farmer ’s Riverworld serial .
The cinema conform to Penikett ’s character , Matt Ellman , after his death when he wakes up in a novel world along with everyone else who died — including September 11th victims and Mark Twain . He ’s determined to discover his girlfriend , ( Laura Vandervoort ) who also died with him . But lot and oodles of insanity get in the way let in one veryblue Alan Cumming .
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Here ’s the prescribed synopsis :
When American warfare zone diary keeper Matt Ellman ( Tahmoh Penikett , Battlestar Galactica ) and his fiancée , Jessie Machalan ( Laura Vandervoort , Smallville ) , are killed in an blowup , Matt awakens , severalise from Jessie , on the bank building of a river snaking unceasingly across a mysterious unexampled airplane of existence . On Riverworld , everyone who has ever last on Earth , ever someone throughout time , has been born-again along the cant of a on the face of it endless river . Determined to locate Jessie , Matt aligns with Tomoe ( Jeananne Goossen , Falcon Beach ) , a thirteenth C distaff warrior , Allegra ( Romina D’Ugo , Hairspray ) , a 15th century concubine of wobble alliances , and American novelist and Riverboat maitre d’hotel Samuel Clemens ( Mark Deklin , Justice ) , better eff as Mark Twain . With a full gang of adventurers , they venture upriver to understand where they are , why they are here , and to what unknowable final stage the river malarkey .
Under the guidance of the rum Caretaker ( Alan Cumming , Tin Man ) , their pursuit take them below to a torturous Cavern of Souls and the Underworld prison , above in a Zeppelin aviate by a brilliant German engineer , and onwards to cross paths with renowned Internet Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton ( Peter Wingdfield , 24 ) who has joined forces with Francisco Pizzaro to conquer and destroy Riverworld . For Matt , each unfathomable twenty-four hour period , each nefarious clash , only deepens the conundrum of Riverworld and nurture more question … What materialize to Earth and when ? What is the purpose of the burning Orb ? What superpower are contained in the infamous Dark Tower ? And why is their every move being followed by the watchful center of an alien being ? The answers are waiting beyond the endless swells of Riverworld .
Charting a soil somewhere between Gulliver ’s travelling and The Lord of the Rings ” ( Time),Philip Jose Farmer‘s Nebula Award - winning saga becomes a spectacular miniseries event - a feast for the heart , the mind , and the heart of everyone who longs to explore the significance of life , the mysteries of decease , and everything that lies between .
Riverworld will be on Syfy in early 2010 .
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