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Worldbuilding crap -- sorry!

HOME ALONE IN THE DEAD DIMENSION (Anand Ramani, 2588):  An iconic action-horror film  starring Mümtaz Kovar (who had a successful directing career themselves).  Cult following among those who are wise to the existence of Gaunts because of the franchise's Deadwalkers' striking similarity to the Gaunt.  Incidentally, Ramani gave up directing for a distinguished career in sculpting.

• Ramani's sculpting career is entirely unrelated to the Gaunt.

LORD OF THE RINGS (Yijun Hermansdotter, 2611):  While Tolkien's iconic work was preserved in the 1976 Soviet adaptation, the original source material was only rediscovered by the Neocatholic Church in 2596.  The 376-minute-long epic was not well-received by critics but attracted a small cult following.  Most viewers found Hermansdotter's depiction of Tom Bombadil deeply disturbing.  

• Everyone in this adaptation was dressed in clothes resembling mid 20th-century fashion because that's the cultural touchstone for "old-timey."
• Gandalf is dressed exactly like Tolkien would dress.
• The orcs are dressed like GIs with swords.

DEGREE OF FANCY (Ember, 2592): First mainstream romantic comedy directed by a canid and starring human leads in which the female lead, a high-powered corporate manager, teaches the rural male lead to love city life and hate the holidays.  Well-regarded but had a very short run in cinemas due to intellectual property disputes surrounding the female lead's preferred drink of choice (which was used without proper permission).  Ember is most noted for her later action films, which often pushed the limits of intellectual property law out of sheer spite.  

• The offending drink in Degree of Fancy was literally a Latte(tm).
• The film was shot from three feet above the ground because that's where the director's head was.  The apes liked it because butts.  
• Ember's trademark low shots are iconic and have become something of an inside joke.  Because butts.

SNOWBLINDER (Enos Shepherd, 2631):  A very questionably-accurate action-adventure adaptation of the Pre-Mistake Glacier War of the late 21st Century focusing on a heroic band of corporate mercenaries (there is no historical evidence indicates substantial corporate participation in that war).  Several members of the crew were seriously injured by local wildlife in the cinematic stand-in for the Himalayas.  Shepherd is currently regarded as uninsurable as a result.  

• Snowblinder is banned in every Exile State with connections to the Glacier War.
• Lawsuits resulting from the catastrophic shoot are still ongoing to this day.

AVIA (Drop Through The Blue, 2634):  An poignant and entirely dialogue-free cinematographic masterpiece by the Gibbon director Drop depicting a beautiful garden world and its surreal inhabitants.  Noted for superb composition and the fact that it was shot in a single take by the director and one sound tech.  Some find the surreal aspects of the film very unsettling.  

• Drop deliberately introduced subtle continuity errors -- no mean feat in a one-take film.;