- they thought it was gonna make 700 million, but it actually made 1.3 billion. so it had a business impact, it had a community impact, it opened up doors. (dramatic music) (rocket thrusting) - it showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at afrofuturism and blacks in sci-fi, looking at horror was also highly profitable. - sci-fi is really a conversation about our humanity and man's relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. - it's really exciting to know that more black-centric science fiction is making its way onto the television screens, finally. - black people have always loved science fiction and have always loved fantasy. we just didn't know it. - when you think of how broad that landscape is,