Gone are the days when the lunch lady in your school cafeteria prepares your meals. In Star-Crossed, The CW’s new Sci-Fi drama, selecting you lunch is as easy and instant as tapping a photo on a giant screen.
This is the future — the not-so-distant-future — where a group of aliens, known as Atrians, are integrated into a high school ten years after their spacecraft crash-lands on a small town in Louisiana.
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The CW has released a sneak peek for the series premiere which shows off some of the advances in technology including an insta-meal vending machine, as well as some futuristic looking cellphones (pictured above) used by the students. iPhone Air 26S, perhaps?
We spoke to Star-Crossed star Aimee Teegarden last summer during the San Diego Comic-Con and she shared her excitement about the possible new tech toys the characters would be using on the show.
“I’m so excited about this,” Teegarden said about how the show depicts future technology. “I had a full-on conversation with the prop crew when we were shooting the pilot and I was like ‘So what’s going on? What are we doing?’ They have so many ideas of different technology. Because technology now versus technology 10 years ago is so incredible. 10 years ago, I didn’t own a cell phone, nobody texted, and now everything’s social media or texting or facebooking.”
“Even just like the guns in themselves,” she adds about the weaponry used in Star-Crossed, “On the show [the prop department] had constructed them themselves and it was cool because [they were] taking them apart and showing me all these cool things put together. And also the phones are just pieces of glass that the image is projected on. So that was pretty cool. And everything as far as schoolbooks are all iPads or tablets of some sort. So I’m excited to get more involved and seeing what kind of cool things they come up with.”
Star-Crossed premieres Monday at 8|7c on The CW.