Outland

Even in Space, the ultimate enemy is Man...
On Io, one of Jupiters moons, Sean Connery is the law!
-- Outland: Comando Titânio (1981) / Novelização do filme e roteiro de Peter Hyams. Romance de Alan Dean Foster '-' The script was originally intended to be set in a western period but Peter Hyams decided to move it into the outer space background due to the influence of Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro (1979). The original title was "Io", but Hyams was persuaded to change the title... The mining company is referred by the name "Con-Amalgamate". This is the same name given to the company that manufactured the defective life support system mentioned in Capricórnio Um (1977) .

|...| Set in the distant future, Federal Marshal William T. O'Niel (Sean Connery), is assigned to a one-year tour of duty at Con Am 27, a titanium ore mining outpost on Jupiter's third moon Io (pronounced "eye-oh"), a volcanic moon about 2,275 miles in diameter and located 275,000 miles from Jupiter's gas surface. Conditions on Io are difficult - gravity is 1/6th that of Earth with no breathable atmosphere, atmospheric work-suits are cumbersome, and miners carry around their own air supply whilst working. Shifts are long but significant bonuses are paid as incentives to boost production. Explaining in an opening disclaimer, Con Am 27 is franchised to Con-Amalgamate by the League of Industrial Nations located on Earth. The colony's population is 2,144 men and women (1,250 labor, 714 support personnel, and 180 administration and maintenance crew). It is policed by a forced called Administrative Level 4 and above. |...| In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

|...| In orbit out from Jupiter in view of its malignant red eye is OUTLAND. Here on Io -- one of moons of Jupiter --, hell in space -- men mine ore to satisfy the needs of Earth. They are hard men, loners for whom the Company provides the necessities: beds, food, drink and women for hire. Now, in apparent suicide or in frenzied madness, the men are dying... To OUTLAND comes the new U.S. Marshall O'Neil, a man with a sense of duty so strong it drives him to ferret out evil, greed and murder regardless of the cost. If he must, he will forfeit love, livelihood -- even life itself.

Aventura / Cinema / Crime / Distopia / Drama / Ficção científica / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / Suspense e Mistério