{"id":17864,"date":"2019-12-05T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-video-traces-the-virtuous-circle-between-real-life-spaceflight-and-the-expanse-on-video\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:22:05","slug":"blue-origin-video-traces-the-virtuous-circle-between-real-life-spaceflight-and-the-expanse-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-video-traces-the-virtuous-circle-between-real-life-spaceflight-and-the-expanse-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin video traces the virtuous circle between real-life spaceflight and \u2018The Expanse\u2019 on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_536593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536593\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-536593\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191205-blueorigin-630x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cas Anvar in New Shepard capsule\" width=\"630\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191205-blueorigin-630x450.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191205-blueorigin-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191205-blueorigin.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-536593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cas Anvar, who plays a Mars-born spaceship pilot on \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d tries out the seats inside a mockup of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard crew capsule, with Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin\u2019s director of astronaut and orbital sales, as his guide. (Amazon Prime Video via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If \u201cThe Expanse\u201d ever decides to shoot episodes of the science-fiction series on a Blue Origin spaceship, Wes Chatham is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think it\u2019d be an excellent marketing opportunity to be the first show that shoots a scene in space,\u201d said Chatham, who plays the role of a space jockey with a gruff exterior but a soft heart on the Amazon Prime Video series.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came to light in a video documenting the \u201cExpanse\u201d cast\u2019s visit to Blue Origin\u2019s headquarters in Kent, Wash. That visit took place in March, but back then, all we had to go on were tweets from Chatham\u2019s fellow actors. Today, Prime Video posted highlights from the visit to publicize next week\u2019s Season 4 premiere. This\u2019ll be the first season to have its first-run airing on Amazon, thanks in part to CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos also owns the Blue Origin space venture, so it was an obvious move to have the \u201cExpanse\u201d cast and crew stop by during March\u2019s tour of Amazon\u2019s home territory. In addition to the show\u2019s stars, the entourage included showrunner Naren Shankar as well as Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who are co-authors of the \u201cExpanse\u201d book series under the pen name James S.A. Corey.<\/p>\n<p>The four-minute video clip focuses on the virtuous circle that connects real-world spaceflight with science fiction. Plenty of space scientists and engineers have said they were inspired by shows such as \u201cStar Trek,\u201d and Shankar said \u201cThe Expanse\u201d returns the favor by sticking as close as it can to the realities of working in space.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Meet The Blue Origin Cast  | The Expanse | Prime Video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPWB8Ea47W0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn more than one occasion, I have given Blue Origin videos to our VFX guys to say, \u2018I want it to look like that,\u2019 \u201d he said during a panel discussion organized for an audience of Blue Origin employees.<\/p>\n<p>The cast members even had a chance to try out the seats in a mockup of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital crew capsule. \u201cThis is way more comfy than the Roci,\u201d said Cas Anvar, who plays the pilot of the fictional spaceship known as the Rocinante (Roci for short).<\/p>\n<p>Chatham said he\u2019d like to draw an even tighter circle around science fact and fiction. \u201cWe should have a swap day where we work on the rocket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That led Franck to imagine a dark turn in a future plot. \u201cWhat part of the rocket failed? It was the part installed by an actor,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin is planning to start putting people on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship sometime next year \u2014 and who knows? Maybe \u201cThe Expanse\u201d will follow through on Chatham\u2019s idea. It\u2019s not as if the issue hasn\u2019t come up before.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when Bezos told me and the world that \u201cThe Expanse\u201d would be airing on Amazon Prime Video, I asked him whether the cast might like to take a ride on New Shepard. \u201cI think they would,\u201d Bezos said back then. \u201cWe talked about whether we should just film on location. That might drive the budget up a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cas Anvar, who plays a Mars-born spaceship pilot on \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d tries out the seats inside a mockup of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard crew capsule, with Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin\u2019s director of astronaut and orbital sales, as his guide. 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