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Chris Paul Russell
The Lord of All Future Space & Time
Director: Chris Paul Russell
Country : USA
Runtime: 23:47
Genre: Sci-Fi Western Comedy
Language: English
Completion Year: 2025
Links: Instagram
Synopsis
When a duffle bag explodes into existence over the Nevada desert, Dyson Wheeler — set to be hanged — seizes his chance at escape, killing his captor with the shovel he was just using to dig his own grave.
Free to carry on living, Wheeler sets out to avenge the death of his beloved wife Rachel, and in the process, create our particular pocket of space-time, The Future That Matters To Us.
The Lord of All Future Space & Time is a classic western tale of revenge interrupted by sci-fi insanity. It's a tall tale in a short film, a fast-paced comedy asking the big questions about time, grief, love, and the meaning of life itself.
About the Director
Chris Paul Russell is a filmmaker whose eclectic taste has generated award-winning work across genres. He has directed music videos and commercials, written and sold multiple feature scripts, and created the viral hit Zombie In a Penguin Suit, which was made for just $1500 and has been lauded as “the most stunning, deeply-felt zombie short film of all time” (Film School Rejects).
Chris has a passion for great ideas, for finding excellence in everyone he meets, and for smashing seemingly disparate concepts together and making them sing in perfect harmony.
Director Statement
This is a story about grief, about the flow of time and how our actions direct and re-direct that flow, in ways we can’t always anticipate. It’s a story about the unsolved and unspoken mysteries of existence: that we are born, live, and die, all without ever knowing why.
Why it all manifested as a sci-fi western comedy, I don’t know. Just another of life’s mysteries.