Tomorrow Man

Tomorrow Man. Alan Spencer, prod. Bill D'Elia, dir. of premier showing. 20th Century-Fox / CBS, 1996. Julian Sand and Giancarlo Esposito, stars.

Said by Alan Spencer to have been inspired primarily by THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, but with borrowings from other works, including TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY and the classic Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever". "Sands plays an android named Kenn," although Terminator-style cyborg seems a more exact description, "possessing knowledge of all future events," from the point of view of our time, which "he" has traveled back to. The robot uses his knowledge of our future "to alter present events to prevent a future catastrophe. To help him in his mission, he picks Jonathan Driscoll" (Esposito), an expert in AI and computer programming. Driscoll "has been ostracized" for his "far-out concepts," but he "proves to be the only one capable of repairing Kenn circuitry." Previewed by Dennis Fischer, Cinefantastique 27.8 (April 1996): 14-15, whom we depend upon for this citation, and quote (14).