Deus 2022

Overview

Deus is a 2022 British science fiction film written and directed by Steve Stone. The film stars Claudia Black, David O'Hara, Phil Davis, and Richard Blackwood. The production is also known as Deus: The Dark Sphere. The plot follows a crew of six people aboard a spaceship as they investigate a mysterious black sphere discovered in the orbit of Mars. After the bedraggled six-person crew wakes from eight months of hibernation, the sphere is found to be transmitting a single word in every Earth language ever known, which is Deus. The movie premiered in May 2022 at the Sci-Fi-London festival. The story is set against a background where the Earth stands at the edge of an environmental catastrophe, the population has grown to over twenty billion people, and large parts of the planet have become uninhabitable.