First Signal

2021
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

3.3/10

12K

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Glenn Pickering, Conor Timmis, Lindy Nettleton, Mark Lund, Michael Anthony Coppola, David Afflick, Wendy Hartman, Chris Goodwin, Stephanie Eaton, Yefim Somin, Daniel Groom, Patience McStravick, and Paul Noonan in First Signal (2021)

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.

Written and directed by Mark Lund.

Coming in 2020.

Starring: Paul Noonan (General John Reager), Conor Timmis (Cedric Yonah), Wendy Hartman (President Helen Colton), Patience McStravick (Major Ellen Sampson) and Stephanie Eaton (National Security Advisor Elisabeth Seward).

Director of Photography/Editor, Daniel Groom; Producer, Composer/Sound Mixer, Daniel Elek-Diamanta; Special Effects Supervisor, Adam Starr.

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When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.

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IMDb RATING

3.3/10

12K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 16 wins & 5 nominations total

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Featured review

2/10

Intriguing film title. It all ends there.

Don't bother. "Written, produced, directed by" same person.

Amateurish production, mostly shot in a hotel conference room posing as a 'bunker'. Premise (title) was intriguing, but ended there. Just a wannabe knockoff of "Contact", sort of. But it nicely gives a nod to Carl Sagan. Actors' dialogue was so wooden and unnatural - there was absolutely no overlapping dialogue... Kind of like Lego people that just sit in their place for over an hour and speak on cue when the director points a finger at them.

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Apr 27, 2021
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Trailer 2:30

First Signal Official Trailer

Interview with actor Conor Timmis (Cedric Yonah)

Interview 38:08

Interview with actress Patience McStravick (Major Ellen Sampson)

Interview 25:15

Interview with actress Wendy Hartman (President Helen Colton)

Interview 36:20

Interview with actor Paul Noonan (General John Reager)

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Trivia
Although First Signal takes place in 2014, at the 1:09:55 mark President Colton predicts the future when she states to President Tupolov, "You should continue pushing into Donbas." Which is followed by a conversation about NATO and sanctions, thus predicting the future of actual events when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

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General John Reager: I live in the here and now. Not last week or seven centuries ago. And while history may have lessons to learn from, I have no interest in writing its last chapter. But I'll be goddamned if something else is going to write it for us!