In August 2025, astrophotographer Rod Prazeres received a strange Instagram message that seemed a little too good to be true — a "small production company" wanted to license his images for use in an undisclosed sci-fi movie.
Next followed a series of conference calls, accompanied by the signing of an NDA.
Of course, working with Amazon MGM Studios to help illustrate a major blockbuster was on an entirely different level from anything that had come before, and all because his photography had drawn the eyes of a production company searching Google Images for views of the Milky Way. "Never in a million years would I have expected that to happen, even if I had 10 years experience, 20 experience, let alone two and a half?
