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The Adam Project
Promotional release poster
Directed byShawn Levy
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTobias Schliessler
Edited by
  • Dean Zimmerman
  • Jonathan Corn
Music byRob Simonsen
Production
companies
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$116 million[1]

The Adam Project is a 2022 American science-fiction action film directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay written by Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett, and Mark Levin. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, and Zoe Saldaña. The plot follows a pilot from the future who goes back in time and encounters his younger self.

Production on the film first began in 2012 with Tom Cruise attached to star. The film then fell into development hell until Netflix acquired the distribution rights. Filming commenced in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2021. The film was released on Netflix on March 11, 2022, and received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals his time jet and escapes through time on a rescue mission to 2018. However, he accidentally crash-lands in 2022 instead where Adam meets his 12-year-old self who is struggling with the recent death of their father Louis in a car accident. Adam reluctantly enlists his younger self's help to repair his jet and reveals that he is looking for his wife, Laura, who was supposedly killed in a crash while on a mission to 2018.

Adam is being chased by Maya Sorian, the leader of the dystopian world and her lieutenant Christos who attempt to apprehend Adam and take him back to 2050. The Adams are rescued by Laura who reveals that she had escaped an assassination attempt on her and was left stranded in the past. Laura had learned that Sorian had traveled back in time and altered the past in order to give herself control of time travel and the future.

Laura urges Adam to travel back to 2018 and destroy time travel, which was created by his father Louis, in order to set things right and save the future. Sorian attacks and Laura sacrifices herself so that the two Adams can escape. Chased by Sorian and with only enough power left for one time jump, Adam and his younger self jump back to 2018.

In 2018, the two Adams attempt to enlist Louis' help, but he refuses out of concern for the scientific impact on the timestream. The younger Adam confronts his future self about his bitterness and anger and realizes that the source of it is his lingering pain over their father's death. As the two launch an attack to destroy Louis' particle accelerator, Louis changes his mind and joins the mission, having them instead retrieve the hard drive containing the only copy of his algorithm that enables time travel.

A battle erupts between the Adams, Louis, Sorian, her younger self, Sorian's soldiers and Christos, resulting in the particle accelerator overloading. Sorian attempts to shoot Louis with an armor-piercing bullet, but the magnetic field of the accelerator instead diverts the round, causing it to kill the younger Sorian, erasing the future Sorian from existence as the Reeds flee.

With time travel destroyed and the future set right, Louis chooses not to learn of his own fate and enjoys a game of catch with both versions of his son before the Adams are returned to their own times. In 2022, Adam lets go of his bitterness and anger and reconciles with his mother whom he has been distant with ever since Louis' death. Years later, a much happier adult Adam meets Laura for the first time in a situation mirroring their first meeting in the original timeline.

Cast

  • Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time pilot in 2050 who risks his life to try and uncover the truth behind his wife's disappearance.
    • Walker Scobell as young Adam Reed, a bullied 12-year-old in 2022 who suffers from asthma.
    • Isaiah Haegert as a younger 8-year-old Adam in 2018.
  • Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed, Adam's father and a brilliant quantum physicist who wrote the algorithm necessary for controlled time travel. Reed has been dead by 2022 and is alive in 2018.
  • Jennifer Garner as Ellie Reed, Adam's mother. Garner also portrays her younger self in 2018.
  • Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian, a businesswoman who funded Louis' research and later took advantage of his death to monopolize it for her own benefit and create a future where she is the most powerful woman in the world.
    • Keener also portrays her younger self through de-aging, with Lucie Guest as her body double.
  • Zoe Saldaña as Laura Shane, Adam's wife and a fellow time pilot left stranded in 2018 after a failed attempt on her life. Saldaña also portrays her alternate version in the changed timeline.
  • Alex Mallari Jr. as Christos, Adam and Laura's former colleague, now a ruthless security enforcer employed by Sorian.

Production

Shawn Levy at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
Director and producer Shawn Levy

The project, a spec script written by T.S. Nowlin, was initially announced as Our Name Is Adam in October 2012. Paramount Pictures became interested in acquiring the film, and Tom Cruise was attached to star.[2][3]

The film was revived in July 2020 when it moved to Netflix, with Shawn Levy as director and Ryan Reynolds set to star after previously collaborating on Free Guy (2021), while the latest draft of the script was written by Jonathan Tropper, from previous drafts by Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin.[4] In November, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, Alex Mallari Jr. and Walker Scobell were added to the cast.[5][6]

Filming commenced in November 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[6] Filming officially wrapped in March 2021.[7]

Rob Simonsen composed the score.[8] A track from the film titled "The Adam Project" was released as a single on March 3, 2022.[9]

Release

The film was released on March 11, 2022, on the streaming service Netflix.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 68% of 176 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "You've seen Ryan Reynolds do this sort of thing before, but The Adam Project offers slickly entertaining – and occasionally even moving – sci-fi action."[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[11]

References

  1. ^ Mendelson, Scott (March 15, 2022). "Ryan Reynolds' Adam Project Represents The Conundrum Of Netflix Blockbusters". Forbes. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  2. ^ Sneider, Jeff (October 17, 2012). "Tom Cruise circling Mary Parent sci-fi project". Variety. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (October 17, 2012). "Paramount In Talks For Tom Cruise Pic 'Our Name Is Adam,' But Studio Punts Ivan Reitman/Kevin Costner's 'Draft Day'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  4. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 23, 2020). "Ryan Reynolds-Shawn Levy Time Travel Project Shifts From Paramount To Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Kroll, Justin (November 17, 2020). "Jennifer Garner And Zoe Saldana Joins Ryan Reynolds in 'The Adam Project' For Netflix And Skydance". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Kit, Borys (November 23, 2020). "Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener Join Ryan Reynolds in 'The Adam Project' for Skydance, Netflix (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  7. ^ "Ryan Reynolds Shares The Adam Project Photos of Gamora, Elektra, The Hulk, and Deadpool Stars". ComicBook.com. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
  8. ^ "Rob Simonsen Scoring Shawn Levy's The Adam Project". filmmusicreporter.com. January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  9. ^ Anderton, Ethan (March 3, 2022). "Listen To The Emotional Title Track From The Adam Project Score By Composer Rob Simonsen [Exclusive]". /Film. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  10. ^ "The Adam Project". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved March 13, 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ "The Adam Project". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
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