Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics. His work has appeared at SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.
Latest articles by Jeff Spry

Sci-fi shooter 'Marathon' comes to life in hilarious marketing prank (video)
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It's just a prank, bro!

'Disclosure Day': Release date, plot, cast, & everything else we know about Spielberg's sci-fi return
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Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with a somber UFO invasion flick this summer

'Rick and Morty' season 9 promises 'No AI slop! Just Grade A organic slop' when it drops on Adult Swim later this year
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Adult Swim's wild animated sensation is back for more sci-fi insanity in May.

'In the old days, we were staring at a f ***ing green screen with tape marks on it': We talk to 'Star Trek' legend Jonathan Frakes about directing 'Starfleet Academy' season 1's penultimate episode
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'The scope of 'Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'

'War Machine's' Alan Ritchson and director Patrick Hughes on why they filmed the action flick 'like a horror movie' (interview)
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'I just wanted to make a film that was completely non-stop from start to end.'

The 1st trailer for HBO's 'Lanterns' drops with no green, no aliens, and a boatload of f-bombs
By Jeff Spry published
'Don't get too hung up on the jewelry, junior, you're just a f***ing substitute teacher.'

'Project Hail Mary''s final teaser trailer is 'Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!'
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'I really wanted this incredible friendship to be true to the book.'

I spoke to the writers behind the trippy new sci-fi novel 'Detour': 'Things don't need to be 100% correct, but they do have to be believable'
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"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."

'Starfleet Academy' creators talk bringing a 20th-century American play into 32nd-century 'Star Trek' (Interview)
By Jeff Spry published
'We're about to have an insanely adrenalized ride these last two episodes.'

60 years of 'Star Trek': The colorful origins of the rainbow warp effect
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'Starfleet Academy' sports a cool 60th anniversary intro honoring this colorful optical effect.

Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?
By Jeff Spry published
NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

Nostrovia! We finally got our 1st look at Apple TV's 'Star City,' the Soviet 'For All Mankind' spinoff
By Jeff Spry published
See how the space race evolved from the other side in this new sci-fi series coming in May

Mars and Earth look set for war in the 1st full 'For All Mankind' season 5 trailer (video)
By Jeff Spry published
'Change happens when a few determined individuals make it happen'

'Invincible' Season 4: Release date, plot, and everything we know
By Jeff Spry published
'We stick together. That's how we win this.'

12 different ways to watch 'Project Hail Mary' in theaters? Outrageous, and we love it (video)
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'The whole movie is like this big roller coaster emotional experience.'

It's toys vs technology in the 1st 'Toy Story 5' trailer, and the toys have an army of Buzz Lightyears
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The lovable old-school Toy Story gang takes on mesmerizing modern digital devices in the first trailer for Pixar's "Toy Story 5."

Jason Momoa will be serving out cups of Liber-Tea as he joins the 'Helldivers' movie
By Jeff Spry published
'Together for liberty!' Director Justin Lin will helm this iron-fisted adaptation of 'Helldivers 2'

'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' feels like '12 Monkeys' meets 'Shaun of the Dead' and a whole lot of AI dread (review)
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Sam Rockwell rocks as a mad time traveler saving the world from a rogue AI in Gore Verbinski's new film "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die."

1st trailer for 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' teases 'Clone Wars' bounty hunter Embo and a whole lot of Hutts
By Jeff Spry published
"Gangsters. War criminals. We'll take out every bad guy in your deck of cards."

7 love-struck sci-fi TV series to snuggle up with on Valentine's Day
By Jeff Spry published
From 'Roswell' to 'Outlander,' these romantic sci-fi TV series are guaranteed to warm cold hearts this winter.

Markiplier's 'Iron Lung' is a welcome return to grindhouse sci-fi films of the '90s
By Jeff Spry published
YouTube's superstar serves up a disturbing indie thriller bathed in blood for his directorial debut

'Project Hail Mary,' 'Disclosure Day,' & 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' got new trailers at Super Bowl LX: Watch them all here (video)
By Jeff Spry published
Take a time out for upcoming interstellar voyages, alien invasions, and animated galactic adventures

Morgan Freeman narrates the glorious rise and meteoric fall of 'The Dinosaurs' in new Netflix series (video)
By Jeff Spry published
Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment's 4-part dino-doc arrives March 6

'Predator: Badlands' decloaks on Hulu & Disney+ this week: Here’s how to watch
By Jeff Spry published
Thia and Dek arrive on Hulu/Disney+ just in time for a romantic Valentine's Day weekend.

'Star Trek' legend George Takei talks Nimoy's directing, the future of exploration, and his sad plastic umbrella (interview)
By Jeff Spry published
"Science fiction is all about the imagination. And it can be exploring space or exploring that mysterious organism called our bodies."
Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

