Cons and capers...IN SPAAAACE!

Oh my goodness, this is the most deliciously, delightfully awesome sizzle reel I've ever seen. Better even than most actual tv previews or movie trailers. It also fills my yen for more caper/heist stories in speculative fiction, two genres that go together like chocolate and raspberries - tasty on their own, but also amazing in combination.

The show-to-be is Slingers, starring Sean Pertwee, Adrian Bower, Tom Mison, Margo Stilley, Haruka Abe, GUN and JUNIOR (how awesome is GUN? Just watch the video!). It's Oceans 11 IN SPACE!, or Cowboy Bebop, or Firefly, or Stainless Steel Rat, or...look, the trailer got three giggles and a lot of grins from me, it's visually stunning, and it has SEAN PERTWEE. Sean Pertwee awesoming it up as voiceover man and (I'm guessing) main antagonist. The "Slingers" category on writer Mike Atherton's blog is here, the production company's blurb (plus images) is here; both are worth checking out. And the sizzle reel is here:

SLINGERS from Mike Sizemore on Vimeo.

Word is they've plotted it out to season three; here's hoping it takes off like a superpowered rocketship and blazes across the heavens in comet-like glory.