The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Red Planet. (Red Planet)
The Genetic Opera. (Repo! The Genetic Opera)
Humans are sent to the dying Sun in an attempt to ignite it with nuclear weapons. (Space, near the Sun - Sunshine)
Berynium is discovered and ends Earth's energy crisis. (Planet Sirius 6B - Screamers)
4th April: The Enterprise arrives from 2373 to prevent the Borg murder of Zephram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive. (Star Trek: First Contact)
5th April: Humans make their first contact with the Vulcans. (Star Trek: First Contact)
New York City becomes 'Old New York City'. (New York - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within)
Joe Simmons meets a Chinese woman who gives him the middle finger. (Shanghai, China - Looper)
"The Alliance" demand an end to Berynium-mining to stop lethal doses of radiation and pollution, causing NEB Corporation to declare war. (Screamers)
Joe Simmons marries the Chinese woman he had met two years prior. (United States - Looper)
The Nebuchadnezzar transport ship, later to be captained by Morpheus, is constructed - or is it? (USA - The Matrix Reloaded)
31st October: Terrorist Vincent Volaju is killed and is plan to spread a deadly virus around the world is thwarted. (Mars - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie)
Equilibrium. (Equilibrium)
Time travel is perfected. Joe Simmons' wife is killed when he is taken from his home to close the loop. He goes back in time to 2044 with the intention of killing the Rainmaker. (Shanghai, China - Looper)
AI programs evolve and some robots begin to resent their human overlords - or do they? (The Matrix Reloaded)
The unmanned space probe Von Braun arrives at the Earth-like world Darwin IV; two landers discover a complex multicellular ecosystem, and are ultimately destroyed by a a pre-technological intelligent species due to an unidentified misunderstanding. (Darwin Binary Star System - Alien Planet)
The first case of a machine rising up against its owners, as butler robot B166ER slaughters two humans, leading to a backlash against AI - or is there/does it? (The Matrix Reloaded)
6th December: Burke orders colonists on planet LV-426 to investigate the Alien ship. This event leads to the deaths of the entire colony, except for one little girl called Newt. (LV-426 - Aliens)
Pluto Nash had adventures. (The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
Recently freed Pluto Nash buys Scottish crooner Anthony Frakowski's bar, saving Anthony's life from gangsters. Anthony goes on to change his name to Tony Francis and achieve fame. (Little America, The Moon - The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
Robots establish Zero One community, after anti-machine rioting pushes them out of major cities - maybe, or not. (Middle East - The Matrix Reloaded)
Transimissions from the unmanned mission to Darwin IV reach Earth via a laser, confirming multicellular and intelligent life exists on Darwin IV. (Earth - Alien Planet)
Mars develops an atmosphere thanks to ancient technology hidden deep within the planet, so Douglas Quaid visits. (Total Recall)
Zero One robot community thrives and creates superior vehicles, computers and weaponry to wipe out many human nations - praps. (Middle East - The Matrix Reloaded)
Pluto Nash's bar is blown up by mysterious gangster Rex Crater after a failed takeover. Nash goes to investigate the source of the problem. (Little America, The Moon - The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
Pluto Nash confronts Rex Crater, who turns out to be a clone of himself. The clone is killed at the end of a fight, falling to his death in front of hundreds of casino patrons. (Moon Beach, The Moon - The Adventures of Pluto Nash)
UN officials refuse to acknowledge robot civilisation Zero One as a sovereign nation, causing a trade blockade and then war - possibly, probably not though. (The Matrix Reloaded)
Zero One robot community survives a nuclear attack, and retaliates against humans - or it doesn't. (The Matrix Reloaded)
Human military leaders try to block the sun to prevent robots gaining energy; the plan backfires and the atmosphere is destroyed - if it's all happening anyway. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Machines take over human armies and try to harness human bio-electricity to replace the sun's energy - or not. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Machines create the Matrix, a dream-like world set in 1999, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries - or this happens centuries later. (The Matrix Revolutions)
'The One' learns he can manipulate the Matrix world through thought, and escapes to the underground human stronghold of Zion - or something else happens. (The Matrix Revolutions)
Captain Reardon becomes captain of the Axiom. (aboard the Axiom, somewhere in space - Wall-E)
A message is sent from the CEO of Buy N Large that the effort to clean up Earth has failed. He issued Directive A 113 to tell Auto Pilot not to return to Earth. (Wall-E)
War, disease and famine are all gone by this time. (Star Trek: First Contact)
The Nostromo answers a distress call on planet LV-426 to devastating consequences. (Alien)
Pinhead the cenobite is summoned to the space station Minos for a last confrontation with the descendant of the man who created the puzzlebox. (Space Station Minos - Hellraiser: Bloodline)
The crew of the space ship Palomino stumbles upon the long, lost ship Cygnus, at the edge of a black hole. (The Black Hole)
Jake Sully's brother starts training to prepare for a mission on Pandora. (Earth - Avatar)
Doom. (Doom)
Jake's brother is murdered. He's asked to take his brother's place on the mission to Pandora since they're so identical. (Earth - Avatar)
28th July: Jake and some marines leave Earth to go to Pandora. (Earth - Avatar)
Doctor Who stops the alien race known as the Daleks from taking over the Earth. (London, England - Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.)
David awakes from his Lucid Dream after deciding he wanted to live a real life. (Vanilla Sky)
Paleo-17 Space Probe lands on planet Tanis. World Population - 24.34 Billion. (Pandorum)
19th May: Jake Sully arrives on Pandora and is shown his avatar for the first time. (Pandora - Avatar)
20th May: Jake meets Neytiri, who takes him to her tribe. (Pandora - Avatar)
21st May: Jake tries to ride Pale. (Pandora - Avatar)
22nd May: Jake is taken to the Hallelujah Mountains. (Pandora - Avatar)
30th May: Jake records a video log. (Pandora - Avatar)
June: Jake continues learning the ways of the Na'vi. (Pandora - Avatar)
29th June: Jake records a video log. (Pandora - Avatar)
July: Dr. Grace Augustine uses her avatar to meet the tribe. (Pandora - Avatar)
13th August: Jake Sully starts showing doubts about reporting in to his military boss about the habits of the Na'vi. (Pandora - Avatar)
14th August: Jake earns his place among the Na'vi and mates with Neytiri. (Pandora - Avatar)
15th August: The RDA destroys Hometree. (Pandora - Avatar)
16th August: Grace dies. (Pandora - Avatar)
17th August: 15 Na'vi clans made up of 2,000 people are united. (Pandora - Avatar)
18th August: The military is defeated by the Na'vi, with Colonel Miles Quaritch shot by Neytiri's arrows. (Pandora - Avatar)
24th August: Jake Sully ceases to be. Sort of. (Pandora - Avatar)