Silent Running - Influence in Other Works

Influence in Other Works

  • WALL-E director Andrew Stanton said he was influenced by this film, as was Duncan Jones in making his feature debut, Moon.
  • Doug Naylor, Rob Grant and Ed Bye cite Silent Running as an inspiration for Red Dwarf, the British science fiction-comedy television series of the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Scenic shots of the American Airlines geodesic freighters were reused in the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Magnificent Warriors".
  • Joel Hodgson has claimed that the film influenced the premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • John Hodgman's compendium of fictional trivia, The Areas of My Expertise, makes several references to Dern's acting.

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