Passengers (2016 film)

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Passengers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMorten Tyldum
Written byJon Spaihts
Starring
CinematographyRodrigo Prieto
Edited byMaryann Brandon
Music byThomas Newman
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
Running time
116 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$110 million[2]
Box office$11.8 million[2]

Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction adventure film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. It stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as two people who wake up 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation on board a spaceship bound for a new planet. The film was released in the United States on December 21, 2016, by Columbia Pictures, received mixed to negative reviews and has grossed $11 million.

Plot

The starship Avalon is on a voyage transporting over 5000 colonists to Homestead II, a planet so far from Earth the journey takes 120 years. The colonists are placed into hibernation pods for the journey, but a malfunction caused by a crash with an asteroid wakes up a passenger, mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), 90 years early.

After a year of isolation with only Arthur (Michael Sheen), a robot bartender, for company, he notices beautiful writer Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) in one of the pods and learns about her life by viewing the video she recorded for her passenger profile. Jim struggles with the morality of waking Aurora up for company, but gives in and wakes her up manually. Initially, Jim lies to Aurora, blaming her early awakening on a pod malfunction like his. Aurora is distraught when she realizes that she may well grow old and die on the ship before the Avalon reaches Homestead II, making a fruitless effort at re-entering hibernation. She comes to accept her situation and begins to write a book about her experiences. After Jim asks Aurora for a date, they grow closer. A year after Aurora's awakening, Jim is about to offer Aurora a ring when Arthur, misunderstanding an offhand comment by Jim, tells Aurora that Jim is directly responsible for her predicament.

This disclosure traumatizes Aurora, leading her to alternately berate, shun and physically attack Jim. Soon after, however, another pod failure causes Gus (Laurence Fishburne), a Chief Deck Officer, to wake up. The three discover multiple failures in the ship's systems because of a failed component overloading the other components. Gus attempts to fix it with Jim and Aurora's help, while Aurora makes it clear she still feels wronged by Jim, saying her forced awakening has stolen her life and amounts to murder. Gus's efforts at repair are hindered by symptoms of sickness and medical tests make it evident that the malfunction of his pod's life support has fatally sickened him. Before he dies, he passes on his ID to Jim and Aurora to allow them to access staff areas and repair the ship, which is experiencing more severe failures each day.

With Gus's ID, the two survivors manage to trace the path of the asteroid chunk that damaged the ship two years earlier. They see signs of collision damage to the computer which administers the reactor. But, fixing the computer leads to further reactor damage. Jim realizes he will need to vent a fusion reactor by opening the vent door from outside the spaceship. Aurora helps him while admitting she is terrified by the prospect of losing him and having to live on the ship alone. The two, both withstanding extreme heat from the malfunctioning reactor, work together to successfully vent the reactor. However, in the process Jim becomes untethered from the ship and damages his spacesuit, losing his oxygen supply. Aurora brings an unconscious Jim back aboard the ship and manages to resuscitate him using the ship's medical facilities. Jim, reunited with Aurora, learns of a way to send her back into hibernation in the Autodoc, an automated medical diagnostics and treatment pod. Hoping to make amends, he offers her a chance to go back to sleep, but she realizes only one of them can do this and she would never see Jim again if she chose to proceed.

Eighty-eight years later, the ship's passengers and crew awaken before the ship's arrival on Homestead II and discover vegetation growing all over the ship. The crew then find Aurora's completed book, and it is revealed that she chose to stay awake with Jim and finish writing her story.[3][4][5][6][7]

Cast

Production

Development

Yes, it was a popular script. It’s one of those stories that really grabs you and you fall in love with it. It’s very smart and funny and clever and such a page-turner I couldn’t put it down. Every 10 pages, something new happens! At the same time, it’s a very intimate movie, while taking place on this epic scale. For me, it’s a story about what’s important to live a full life. What are the things we need as humans? It’s not afraid to entertain but at the same time it asks big questions about what does it mean to really feel happy. Every generation has its love story. I feel like this is it. I had to do it.

— Director Morten Tyldum[8]

The original script for Passengers was written by Jon Spaihts in 2007, and had been in development hell for years.[9] At one point, the film was set to star Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt,[10] with the production budget being a relatively low $35 million.[11] Brian Kirk was originally scheduled to make his feature directorial debut with the film, with Reeves in the lead.[12][13] On December 5, 2014, it was announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment had won the auction for the rights to the film.[14] In early 2015, Morten Tyldum was chosen to helm the film.[15] Tyldum had always wanted to do a massive sci-fi action movie, but also stressed the importance of a character-driven, rather than a cold and distant, sci-fi film.[7]

Metro described its plot as bearing a resemblance to the EC Comics story 50 Girls 50, first published in the July–August 1953 issue of Weird Science,[16] in which two passengers of a colony spaceship are awoken from hibernation early and fall in love.

The cast – Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Aurora Perrineau – were announced between February 2015 to January 2016.[17][18][19][20][21] Lawrence was paid $20 million against 30 percent of the profit after the movie breaks even and Pratt was paid $12 million.[11][22]

Filming

This film was recorded by Sony Pictures Entertainment.[23] Principal photography on the film began in September 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.[24][25] Filming occasionally took place for full days with a bulk of the shooting done around the two leads only. Rodrigo Prieto served as cinematographer, and Maryann Brandon was hired as film editor.[26][27]

Music

Thomas Newman composed the musical score for Passengers.[28] Spaihts said that he wrote Passengers while listening to Newman's previous scores.[29] Also, Imagine Dragons recorded a song, "Levitate", for the film's soundtrack. It was released on November 29, 2016.[30]

Release

In August 2015, Sony Pictures Entertainment set the film's release date for December 21, 2016, in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. The film was concurrently released in 3D and RealD 3D formats,[31] with the international rollout running through Christmas and the New Year, to January 12, 2017.[32]

Box office

Passengers opened alongside Sing and Assassin's Creed, and was initially expected to gross around $50 million from 3,478 theaters over its first six days of release, although the studio was projecting a more conservative $35 million debut.[33][34] After making $1.2 million from Tuesday night previews[35] and $4.1 million on its first day, projections for the six-day opening were lowered to $27 million.[36]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 32 % based on 167 reviews with an average rating of 5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Passengers proves Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence work well together – and that even their chemistry isn't enough to overcome a fatally flawed story."[37] On Metacritic, the film has a score 41 out of 100 based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[38] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[39]

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