Published on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 9:09am
Peter Fonda Joins The REVOLUTION!!
Merrick here...Oscar nominee Fonda plays the patriarch grandfather of the Hart family, which has taken over "New America," a planet 50 light years from Earth.
...says THIS ARTICLE at SciFi.com.
The two hour movie/pilot is described by a press release as...
...the sweeping story of 'New America,' a distant colony on an Earth-like planet struggling for its independence from an increasingly hostile homeland.
The pilot is directed by Simon West (CON-AIR, LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER), who is also an Executive Producer on the project.
Fonda has addressed themes like this in the past. One example...
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