WHY

Space is fundamentally quite weird, but nothing is as weird as the thousands of “exoplanets” that exist outside of our solar system. We’re all familiar with the likes of Tatooine from Star Wars and Krypton from Superman, but what are the REAL exoplanets like? And how do filmmakers turn these planets from figments of imagination into something immersive that look and feel real to audiences?

To find out, I talk to Lisa Kaltenegger, world-leading astronomer and author of Alien Earths: The Search for Life in the Cosmos and Paul Franklin, Oscar-winning Visual FX Supervisor and co-founder of the digital effects company DNEG.

You can listen to the full episode here: https://listen.podmasters.uk/whylinktree