ADVENTURE MOVIE MARATHON - SYFY: SCHEDULE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012
11:30 AM Riverworld - Part One
Tahmoh Penikett and Alan Cummings star in this adaptation of Philip Jose Farmer's novel about a group of people who die and awaken in a strange land covered almost entirely in rivers.
Matt (Tahmoh Penikett), an American journalist, and his fiancee, Jessie (Laura Vandervoort), are killed in an explosion, but reawaken in this unusual afterlife. Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been resurrected simultaneously in this strange new world. Determined to find Jessie, Matt joins forces with an intrepid crew, including a 13th century female warrior and riverboat captain Mark Twain (Mark Deklin). As they embark upriver, their adventure begins, all the while tracked by the watchful eye of a mysterious alien force.
Cast includes Tahmoh Penikett, Mark Deklin, Sanctuary's Peter Wingfield, Jeananne Goossen, Alan Cumming, Laura Vandervoort, Chiara Zanni, Battlestar Galactica's Alessandro Juliani; and Stargate (SG1/SGA/SGU) alums Aleks Paunovic, Kwesi Ameyaw, Michael Adamthwaite, Alex Zahara, Terry Chen and Marilyn Norry.
01:30 PM Riverworld - Part Two
03:30 PM Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Third entry in the adventure saga sends a resurrected buccaneer (Geoffrey Rush), a feisty heroine (Keira Knightley) and her swashbuckling swain (Orlando Bloom) on a voyage to rescue Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' locker.
Cast includes Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce and Once Upon A Time's Lee Arenberg.