10 Times Sci-Fi Movies Predicted the Same Year (With Totally Different Futures)

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2035 – I, Robot and The Martian

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I, Robot imagines 2035 as sleek and hyper-modern, with humanoid robots integrated into everyday life. They cook, clean, and protect us, all governed by Asimov's Three Laws. Of course, the film explores what happens when those "perfect" laws break down and AI starts thinking for itself.
The Martian lands in late 2035, giving us NASA's vision of space exploration: astronauts living and working on Mars. Instead of killer robots, we get potatoes grown in Martian soil and the ultimate survival story.
One 2035 is technophobic, the other is a love letter to human ingenuity.
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2042 – Furiosa and Terminator: Dark Fate

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Furiosa takes the Mad Max timeline into 2042, where the world has already collapsed into a wasteland. It's a vision of scarcity: no water, no law, no mercy. The future here is one long desert road war.
Terminator: Dark Fate imagines 2042 under siege by machines. Humanity fights for survival against AI overlords who send Terminators back through time.
Different apocalypse, same hopeless vibe.
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2043 – The Book of Eli and RoboCop

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The Book of Eli sets 2043 in a post-nuclear wasteland. Civilization is gone, resources are scarce, and the future belongs to whoever can wield power - spiritual or violent. It's the Bible as humanity's last beacon.
RoboCop doesn't go global, but its 2043 Detroit is equally bleak. Corporations run the city, crime is rampant, and the line between man and machine is erased through cybernetic policing.
Where Eli's world is empty, RoboCop's is overcrowded and corrupt.
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2044 – Looper and The Beast

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Looper shows 2044 as a morally bankrupt society where the poor live in slums and criminals use illegal time travel to dispose of bodies. It's a vision of the future where tech is powerful, but only in the hands of the worst people imaginable.
The Beast paints 2044 as cold, sterile, and ruled by artificial intelligence. Emotions are seen as liabilities, and people undergo procedures to "purge" themselves of love, grief, and attachment.
Where Looper fears technology used for violence, The Beast fears technology stripping away our humanity.
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2045 – Ready Player One and The Colony

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Ready Player One depicts 2045 as a dystopia where the real world has fallen apart, but everyone escapes into the OASIS, a vast VR playground packed with nostalgia and endless escapism.
The Colony shows 2045 as an Earth devastated by climate disaster, where small groups of survivors struggle in frozen wastelands.
Forget video games - this vision of the future is pure survival mode.
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2049 – Blade Runner 2049 and The Midnight Sky

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Blade Runner 2049 doubles down on the neon noir of the original. Its 2049 is a sprawling megacity choked in smog, where replicants struggle for identity and humans drown in consumerism.
The Midnight Sky envisions 2049 as a dying Earth on the brink of collapse. The story follows the last survivors trying to communicate with astronauts returning from space.
Both films are about isolation, but one in crowded cities, the other in empty silence.
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2050 – The Adam Project and Underwater

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The Adam Project imagines 2050 as a place where time travel exists and is already being abused. It's a future where the biggest danger isn't the tech itself, but the greed and power of those who control it.
Underwater puts us in the crushing depths of the ocean in 2050, where drilling operations awaken something monstrous. Instead of sleek science fiction, it's claustrophobic horror under unimaginable pressure.
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2054 – Mickey 17 and Minority Report

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Mickey 17 (based on the novel) imagines 2054 as a time of interstellar colonization, but with a disturbing twist: expendable human clones who can be "recycled" after each death. It's a future where life itself is disposable.
Minority Report envisions a polished 2054 where precogs predict crimes before they happen. It's a world of perfect surveillance, flashy tech, and zero privacy.
One future sees humans as replaceable, the other sees them as predictable.
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2063 – Last Sentinel and Voyagers

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Last Sentinel takes place in 2063 on a flooded Earth, where soldiers guard one of the last outposts of humanity. The future is watery, militarized, and filled with paranoia.
Voyagers imagines 2063 as the moment humanity finally launches long-haul space colonization. A group of young astronauts are bred and drugged into compliance - until they stop taking their meds. The mission collapses into chaos, showing how fragile human order really is.
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2092 – Interstellar and Mr. Nobody

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Interstellar doesn't stay in 2092 long, but its timeline shows a future where Earth's environment is dying and humanity looks to the stars for salvation. It's about science, survival, and the cosmic scale of love.
Mr. Nobody sets its 2092 as a surreal, philosophical end-point: the last mortal man on Earth reflecting on the infinite choices of his life in a world where science has made everyone else immortal.
For one movie, 2092 is about saving the species. For the other, it's about the meaning of one life.
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Looking at these shared years side by side, you start to notice patterns. Our collective vision of the future is split between two extremes: the collapse of civilization into dust and wastelands, or the rise of hyper-advanced technology that strips away our humanity. It’s either deserts, floods, and famine - or AI, clones, and VR headsets. Maybe that says more about us than the future itself. These movies aren’t really about predicting the years ahead; they’re mirrors for our anxieties today. We either destroy the world and find our humanity or we build a sci-fi utopia but lose our humanity to it.