Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey might be the biggest movie you've never heard of. It's a 2010 animated sci-fi movie starring Chris Pine, John Travolta, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amanda Peet, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill, William Shatner, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Alexander, Sandra Oh, and Neil Armstrong. It ran in one theater in Kentucky, then disappeared forever. It never got a wide theatrical release or home video release and it's never been on any streaming services. I set out to find Quantum Quest and along the way found there's a lot more to this story than your typical lost media piece, and the butterfly effect of this movie reaches further than I could have imagined. Finding Quantum Quest started as the search for a lost movie but ended up being much more. I spoke with filmmakers, actors, NASA employees, and neuroscientists who led me down a rabbit hole of art, science, exploration, and ultimately what it means to be human.
https://www.findingquantumquest.com/
episode 3: In Saturn’s Rings
It turns out there was more than one IMAX movie based on the Cassini mission. Filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren spent more than a decade combining over 7 million real images of outer space, using multiplane photo animation, to create a 40-minute movie titled In Saturn’s Rings. He also happens to be one of the very few people ever to see Quantum Quest in the theater.
Finding Quantum Quest is a production of Du Vide Media.
Written and produced by Spencer Wirth-Davis.
Co-produced by Ryan Kopperud and Sam McCullough.
Story editing by Sierra DeMulder-Eyres and Katie Roth.
Special thanks to Eric Mayson.
Transcripts available at FindingQuantumQuest.com
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