‘The Expanse’ Officially Set For Major New Release This December

Humanity has, since the dawn of time, always held an attraction for the stars. With their aid, we’ve numbered our days and so much more, yet the attraction still deepens. That lure perhaps explains why the sci-fi genre continues to endure. Some of the oldest sci-fi franchises, like Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Godzilla, helped showcase the blueprint for the exploration of the universe through films and television shows as we know it. The 21st century has seen its fair share of defining sci-fi projects, with directors like Christopher Nolan credited with some of them.

Nolan’s filmography is extensive, with the director perfectly capable of playing in whatever field. Biopics like Oppenheimer, superhero movies like The Dark Knight, and even in the sci-fi genre with projects like Inception and Interstellar, the latter of which is arguably the director’s most emotional movie ever. However, there is another series which bears similar hallmarks to The Odyssey director’s Interstellar. Released in 2015, the series matches Interstellar‘s grounded approach to physics and space travel, while also scratching all the itches sci-fi lovers typically have. Delivering quality from sets, spectacular performances, and mind-blowing storylines.

We are talking about the 2015 Syfy series, The Expanse, of course. The bold sci-fi series ran for six seasons and followed humanity’s spread across the solar system. Despite the main series ending back in 2022, The Expanse and its sprawling universe are all set for a new major release. The original series is based off a novel series penned by James S. A. Corey, which is a joint pen name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Now, despite the duo officially concluding the mainline series in 2021 and the short-fiction collection Memory’s Legion in 2022, it will be coming with three exciting new releases officially arriving this December. These releases include Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, and Babylon’s Ashes, the fourth, fifth, and sixth installments in the original novel series. The books are scheduled to arrive on December 8, with each hardcover priced at $40 in the US.

What is ‘The Expanse’ About?

Syfy’s The Expanse begins in 2350, in an era when space colonization has expanded and succeeded across the solar system. A sci-fi show heavily seeded with politics, Earth is now under the rule of the United Nations, with Mars under a separate military rule. A difference in ideology means Earth and Mars are constantly at odds with each other and their conflict extends even to arms and resources, it is basically a Cold War waged in space. In between these two powers exist the Belters, an entire population of people living in the Asteroid Belt who help extract the resources needed by Mars and Earth, while still struggling for basic resources to exist. Despite its spaceships and science-heavy backdrop, The Expanse delves deeply into socioeconomic disparities between classes in society.

The Expanse is available to stream on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

Release Date

2015 – 2022-00-00

Network

SyFy, Prime Video

Showrunner

Naren Shankar, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

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