I found the original, from 2009. The vertical white line is "current year", so 2009. And yeah, the left of each bar is indeed the year the film released, the right is when the film's story took place. I thought the line was supposed to be 2000, so knowing it is actually 2009 makes more sense.

https://danmeth.tumblr.com/post/124593834/futuristicmovietimeline

Futuristic Movie Timeline

#6 In A Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts

No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we’d find. I’ve also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year. This is by far the geekiest thing I’ve ever done.

* I only included movies in which Wikipedia knew the exact year.

#popculturalcharts #stuff #clockwork #orange #kubrick #2001 #robocop #scifi #futuristic #movie #cinema #timeline #bladerunner #monkeys #arnold #totalrecall #alien #space #future #sleeper #matrix #zardoz #startrek #logan's #run #idiocracy #barbarella #planetofapes #dune

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Jun 20th, 2009