Kelly Reilly is best known nowadays as one of the stars of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone, but nearly 20 years ago, she starred in this forgotten sci-fi movie.
If you had no idea that Kelly Reilly — of «Yellowstone» fame — was in a movie a long time ago with Tom Hardy, you’d be forgiven. Released back in 2006, as a BBC Four telemovie, the two starred in a modern retelling of the science-fiction-drama «A for Andromeda.» Also in the movie is Charlie Cox, who you might recognize as Marvel’s «Daredevil.» When it aired, it was a big hit with the locals, for a week apparently, watched by 580,000 viewers, before fading away into obscurity.
The original show was a seven-part series that aired in 1961, written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle — and it seems only one episode has survived the times. Dropping slight spoilers here, but the series follows a group of scientists who discover a radio signal that’s coming from another galaxy, not unlike the «Wow» signal of 1977.
