Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey |
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Directed by |
Harry Kloor Daniel St. Pierre |
Produced by | Harry Kloor Rayna Napali Helen Pao-Yun Huang Ellen Goldsmith-Vein |
Written by | Harry Kloor |
Starring |
Chris Pine Amanda Peet Samuel L. Jackson Hayden Christensen James Earl Jones Sandra Oh William Shatner Mark Hamill Doug Jones Abigail Breslin Spencer Breslin Robert Picardo Brent Spiner |
Music by | Shawn K. Clement |
Cinematography | Christopher Courtois |
Edited by | Dan Gutman |
Production
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Jupiter 9 Productions
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Distributed by | Jupiter 9 Productions |
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Running time
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45 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (originally titled as 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey) is a 2010 animated educational sci-fi adventure film, written by Harry 'Doc' Kloor and directed by Kloor and Dan St. Pierre, as a science fiction film that takes the viewer on an atomic adventure in space.
The voice cast originally included Christian Slater, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael York, and James Earl Jones, but the cast changed in 2008, reflecting a new script that detailed a host of new discoveries made by the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn. Using a cast of major actors to provide their voices to the characters, the film was initiated by JPL/NASA through a grant from Jet Propulsion Lab via the international Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.
The story begins with the Cassini Saturn spacecraft releasing the Huygens Titan probe. We then transition to Earth, where a 12-year-old girl, Jeana (Voiced by Abigail Breslin), places a sun filter over a telescope to view sun spots. She asks her mentor, a Professor "Why is the Sun so bright?" This leads the professor to launch into a scientific explanation about fusion. The little girl laughs, having played this trick on her mentor many times, she says "No I meant bright, bright like happy. In most drawings the sun has a big smile. Is he good, like the man in the moon." Knowing this means she wants a story, the mentor begins to spin a tale, but as a mentor, this one, while entertaining, is also educational.