Sunshine
If it dies, so do we.
Sunshine (2007)
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Production
Budget
$50 000 000
Revenue
$34 800 000
Director
Scenario
Composer
Producer
Andrew Macdonald
Actors
Cillian Murphy
Capa
Rose Byrne
Cassie
Chris Evans
Mace
Michelle Yeoh
Corazon
Cliff Curtis
Searle
Hiroyuki Sanada
Kaneda
Troy Garity
Harvey
Benedict Wong
Trey
Short description
In the year 2057, the Sun is fading and humanity faces extinction. An international mission sends a spacecraft carrying a nuclear payload toward the star, hoping to reignite it. The voyage is long, and the crew must contend with strain on their minds and failures in their ship's systems, since the fate of everyone on Earth rests on their success. During the journey, they pick up a signal from an earlier vessel that vanished seven years before while attempting the same task, pushing the mission into dangerous territory.
Danny Boyle directed the film, his eighth of seventeen features, arriving between Millions and Slumdog Millionaire. Alex Garland wrote the screenplay, Andrew Macdonald produced, and the cast includes Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis and Hiroyuki Sanada. It is a British production that mixes drama, horror, science fiction and thriller elements, with a budget of 50 million dollars and a worldwide box office of about 35 million.
Audiences rate the film at 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from 285,000 votes and 7 out of 10 on TMDB from 4,433 votes, while critics give it 7.1 out of 10 from 172 reviews, putting the three measures close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- For the scene where Chris Evans' character repairs the "Icarus 2," the actor climbed into icy water before each take, causing his breath to visibly steam. He genuinely chattered his teeth from the cold.
- Writing the screenplay took Danny Boyle and Alex Garland over a year, followed by another year spent on pre-production; after that, filming began, lasting four months, and then another year was spent on editing and visual effects.
- Kaneda was originally planned to be American, but Danny Boyle was persuaded to change his nationality because space travel has long become international. Therefore, they cast Hiroyuki Sanada, an actor of Japanese origin, in the role of Kaneda.
- The cast members underwent special training in a space flight program and learned scuba diving. Danny Boyle made everyone rewatch certain films, including Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983) and Al Reinert's (1947-2018) "For All Mankind" (1989). Boyle also arranged a tour of a nuclear submarine for them, so the actors could better understand what life in confinement is like, and gave them the opportunity to experience zero gravity on an aircraft performing aerobatic maneuvers.
- The cast underwent special training in a space flight program and learned scuba diving. Danny Boyle made everyone rewatch certain films, including Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" and Al Reinert's "For All Mankind." Boyle also arranged a tour of a nuclear submarine for them so the actors could better understand what life is like in cramped quarters, and gave them the opportunity to experience weightlessness on an aircraft performing aerobatic maneuvers.
- During issues with the airlock, a mannequin very similar to the actress Michelle Yeoh was used in place of her body.
- Danny Boyle was so exhausted working on the science fiction project that he vowed never to shoot science fiction again.
- During issues with the gate, a mannequin was used instead of Michelle Yeoh's body double.
- The models for the burnt corpses in the film were the remains of victims of the eruption of Vesuvius found in Pompeii.
- Cillian Murphy received physics consultations from British physicist Brian Cox. The actor visited CERN on the border of Switzerland and France, where he observed scientists and even began to copy some of Cox's gestures. He also rewatched Henri-Georges Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" to better understand the tension that Boyle was trying to create.
- The plot does not revolve around the Sun fading for natural reasons. According to the latest scientific research, this will happen in approximately 5 billion years. According to the plot, a Q-ball (a type of non-topological soliton) formed during the Big Bang enters the Sun, damaging ordinary matter. A Q-ball is a theoretically particle whose existence is currently being attempted to be proven at CERN. In the film, the explosion of a bomb is meant to destroy the Q-ball into its constituent particles, and their natural decay will allow the Sun to return to its previous state.
- Danny Boyle was so exhausted from working on the fantastical project that he vowed never to shoot science fiction again.
- The hardest thing for the special effects team to create was the Sun. Ultimately, it was done using computer technology and turned out to be the longest special effect in terms of screen time ever created by the London studio.
- It took Danny Boyle and Alex Garland over a year to write the script.
- Applying makeup to Mark Strong took 5 hours.
- The film used 750 special effects. Usually, several teams of specialists are hired to create special effects, but here, all the effects were created by one team because it was easier for Danny Boyle. Because of this, the post-production process took longer.
- After auditions, director Danny Boyle was so impressed with Michelle Yeoh's performance that he allowed her to choose any character she wanted to play. He was even willing to make the necessary changes to the script if she chose a male character.
- Cillian Murphy received physics consultations from British physicist Brian Cox. The actor visited CERN on the border of Switzerland and France, observing the behavior of scientists and even beginning to mimic some of Cox's gestures. He also rewatched Henri-Georges Clouzot's (1907-1977) drama "The Wages of Fear" (1952) to better understand the suspense Boyle was trying to create. Murphy subsequently stated that he had previously been agnostic, but working on this film made him an atheist.
- Initially, the script called for an atomic bomb of the same size, but composed of compressed dark matter, with the mass of the Moon. However, the film's scientific consultant pointed out the problems with using a bomb of that mass, so in the film it has the mass of Manhattan.
- Kaneda was originally planned to be American, but Danny Boyle was persuaded to change his nationality, as space flights have long become international.
- For some time, the actors involved in the project had to live together to create the impression for the audience that they knew each other well, as required by the script.
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