Iron Sky Filmmakers See Red With Bonkers Trilogy About Communists On Mars (DETAILS)

Producer Tero Kaukomaa and director Timo Vuorensola are officially on a mission to Mars.

The comrades that cooked up the bonkers idea of a thriving Nazi society on the dark side of the moon in Iron Sky have shifted their sights from one 20th century adversary to another by trading the swastika for the hammer and sickle.

They're now in the process of raising funds for Deep Red, a new trilogy of action sci-fi movies set in a alternate reality where the Red Menace established a communist workers' paradise on the Red Planet (teased at the end of 2019's Iron Sky sequel, The Coming Race). While the setup is just as insane as moon-dwelling acolytes of the Third Reich, there is a kernel of historical truth here. After all, it was the Soviets who kicked off the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik in 1957.

Iron Sky filmmakers announce Deep Red trilogy about Communists on Mars

"In the world of Deep Red, communists have secretly occupied the Red Planet since the 1950s, building a utopian society hidden from Earth," reads the official synopsis. "Their isolation has allowed them to achieve what history never could: a truly functional Communist system—made possible only by complete separation from humanity. But their fragile order begins to unravel when an American astronaut, Simon Nash, crash-lands on Mars and uncovers the hidden colony."

And if you thought the KGB was bad, just wait until you get a load of "Deep Red," a ruthless artificial intelligence that governs this cosmic outpost of the USSR. Built from a Cold War-era Soviet chess computer, it rules with a cold and calculating impunity, twisting the Marxist utopia into an oppressive dystopia.

Cosmonaut holds up hammer & Sickle with the various flights of the Vostok Rocket Behind Him. Artist Communist Party of the USSR, 1963.

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Hoping to take down the A.I.'s Orwellian police state once and for all, Nash joins forces with Russian seismologist Katya Dedov in an effort to stir up rebellion and prove that communists and capitalists can see eye-to-eye on occasion. Even if the revolution is successful, however, it runs the risk of opening a power vacuum for billionaire industrialist Miles Spiros to seize control of Mars alongside his ultra-rich allies.

The plan is to film all three Deep Red films back-to-back (à la Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy), with plans to release them across two-year stretches between 2027 and 2031.

"Deep Red a dark science fiction satire, a mirror held up to our own society," Vuorensola explained in a video in which he and Kaukomaa lay out the overall vision (see below). "It's actually three mirrors—three movies. And that's not all. Deep Red is a trans-media world, one that you can watch, play, read, share, and even own."