Pandorum
Short description
Two crew members, Bower and Payton, wake from hibernation aboard a vast spacecraft to find their memories gone. They do not know who they are, how long they have been asleep, or what the mission was meant to be. With the ship's power failing, Payton guides Bower by radio through service ducts toward the reactor, while Bower encounters other survivors hiding in the vessel's depths and discovers that they are not alone on board.
Christian Alvart directed the film, working from a screenplay by Travis Milloy, with Paul W. S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer producing. It followed Alvart's 2005 debut Antibodies and preceded Case 39, Banklady, Nick: Off Duty, Cut Off and Don't. Get. Out! in his filmography. Ben Foster plays Bower and Dennis Quaid plays Payton, with Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le and Eddie Rouse among the supporting cast. The production was a German, British and American co-production made for about 33 million dollars, and it took roughly 21 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds 6.7 out of 10 from around 167,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.6 from a much smaller base of about 2,766 ratings, so viewer response has been moderately positive and fairly consistent across both. A film critics' rating of 4.6 out of 10 from 87 reviews is noticeably lower than those audience scores, indicating that reviewers were considerably less receptive than general viewers to this blend of science fiction and horror.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the US, the film was shown in cinemas with D-Box support. This is a system of vibrations and movements that is mounted in the seat and allows for deeper immersion in the action.
- Ben Foster insisted on eating real, live insects.
- The ship is named 'Elysium'. In ancient Greek mythology, this is a part of the afterlife, the abode of blessed souls. There is a certain allusion here to the ship's mission, which is traveling from an overpopulated Earth to the Earth-like planet Tanis to establish a colony there.
- Travis Milloy initially wrote a script set on a prison ship. Nadia and Man, played by Antje Traue and Kung Le, were inmates there. Bauer, played by Ben Foster, was not a prisoner. He trusted no one. Producers showed this script to Christian Alvart, who was struck by its similarity to his own script about four astronauts on board a ship suffering from amnesia. Eventually, it was decided to merge these two scripts.
- Pandorum is a mental disorder that affects ship captains when they become convinced that their ship is cursed, after which the captains go insane. This disease is fictional.
- The leader of the hunters is played by André Hennicke. He is also shown without monstrous makeup as the commander of the young Galloway at the very beginning.
- At the seventh minute, the main character looks into Lieutenant Peyton's cryochamber, addressing him by his last name. The last name Peyton is also visible on the chamber itself. A minute later, the main character tries to break the glass of this chamber, where the beginning of the last name Peyton is also visible. But between these moments, a view "from inside the cryochamber" of the same Peyton, whom the main character is trying to open, is shown. But the last name on the glass is already Bowers.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
