Wednesday November 18th 2015, a short film was placed inside a time-lock, set to automatically open on November 18th 2115, exactly 100 years on.
Having been hired by Louis XIII Champagne Cognac, which takes a century to make, director Robert Rodriguez and writer/actor John Malkovich teamed up to create a short film, imagining what state the world will be in one hundred years from now.
A trailer was also filmed, based on three teasers for the project, but apparently it features none of the actual footage from the finished product, and the plot of the short itself is being tightly guarded until it's released to be viewed in the early 22nd century.
A number of screenings have been given out to a number of select people, for them to gift to future generations, and when The Hollywood Reporter spoke to John Malkovich about the project, he stated: "I’m not at all bothered even that I won’t see it. For me, it was a strange experience, as they often are, and unexpected, as they often are. We had no interference, we had no particular supervision. We could just say, "I was thinking about this, and what about that?"
While the two-time Oscar nominee Malkovich was as good a choice as any to show the future what our best actors were capable of, choosing the somewhat hit-and-miss director like Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror, Spy Kids) feels like a bit of an odd choice.
Will the risk pay off? We'll let you know in 36,500 days or so.
