Riverworld (2003 film)

Riverworld is a scififantasy featurelength pilot episode for a series that was never produced. It aired on the SciFi Channel in 2003. It was loosely based on the Hugo Awardwinning Riverworld saga by Philip Jos Farmer. Production began in 2001. It was rebooted in 2010, under the same title.

Hale learns that the known world is the bank of a massive river. Anyone who has ever lived on Earth at any time in history is qualified to start life anew on Riverworld, reborn in his or her prime of life. Other cloaked figures are seen fleetingly, but their purpose is unknown. Food is provided, and the climate is clement. The need for shelter is easily provided by available resources and simple manual labor.Hale meets and makes close friends with some of his fellow castaways, all of them from different time periods Alice Liddell Hargreaves Emily Lloyd Mali Karen Holness, a former slave of the preCivil War era and Lev Ruach Jeremy Birchall, a Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust. The Neanderthal among the castaways is later killed by a man introducing himself as Lucius Domitus Ahenobarbus Jonathan Cake, a citizen of Ancient Rome. When Hale begins to argue with Lucius about the latters ethics, Lucius attacks him for the leadership but their fight is interrupted by slavers under the rulership of one Valdemar Kevin Smith, who has erected his own empire and plans to expand it. ........

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