Passengers
Short description
Passengers is a science fiction romance set aboard a spacecraft carrying thousands of colonists toward a distant planet. When the ship's hibernation system fails, two passengers wake up ninety years before the journey is due to end, leaving them to face the prospect of living out their entire lives on board. They grow close as they build a life together in the ship's luxurious surroundings, but their situation turns dangerous when they discover that the vessel and everyone still asleep on it are under threat, leaving the pair as the only ones who can act.
The film was directed by Morten Tyldum, following Headhunters in 2011 and The Imitation Game in 2014. Jon Spaihts wrote the screenplay, and Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur and Stephen Hamel produced. Jennifer Lawrence plays Aurora Lane opposite Chris Pratt as Jim Preston, with Michael Sheen as Arthur, Laurence Fishburne as Gus Mancuso and Andy García as Captain Norris among a credited cast of 44.
Made for a budget of 110 million USD, Passengers took in about 303 million USD worldwide, a solid return on its production cost. Audiences received it favourably, with a rating of 7 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 493,000 votes and 7 out of 10 on TMDB from about 14,500 votes. The film critics' rating stands at 5 out of 10 from 287 reviews, noticeably lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Previously, the project was being developed at Universal Studios, but it moved to Sony Pictures Entertainment.
- The idea and screenplay for the film were developed at Company Films, owned by Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel.
- John Spaihts' screenplay, written in 2007, ranked third on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays that year.
- Reese Witherspoon, Rachel McAdams, and Emily Blunt were considered for the lead female role at various times.
- Gabriele Muccino, Marc Forster, and Brian Kirk were all contenders for the director's chair.
- Both Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star in Marvel comic book adaptations. Pratt plays Peter Quill (Star-Lord) in 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' and Lawrence portrays Raven Darkhölme (Mystique) in the 'X-Men' saga.
- Notably, Jennifer Lawrence's character is named Aurora. The Sleeping Beauty from the Disney animated film of the same name also bore that name.
- Jennifer Lawrence claims that 'Passengers' is the first film where she had to play a bedroom scene. However, she had already filmed such scenes with Anton Yelchin in 'Like Crazy' (2011) and with Bradley Cooper in Susanna Bier's 'Serena' (2014).
- In zero gravity, even with the power off, the ship cannot suddenly start and stop rotating as shown in the film. This violates several fundamental laws of physics.
- Jennifer Lawrence admitted she was very nervous during the intimate scene with Chris Pratt, because it was her first such scene in her career and the first time she had to kiss a married actor. The actress confessed that she had a drink for courage before filming the scene.
- When Jim goes into open space for the first time and, disconnecting his boots, flies along a tether, a tear runs down his cheek, which is impossible because there is no gravity there.
- In zero gravity, even with the power off, the ship cannot suddenly start and stop rotating as shown in the film.
- When the main character opens the reactor ventilation, not just fire rushes out, but a plasma stream, that is, highly energetic charged particles. In such conditions, radio communication cannot function.
- Frosting of the spacesuit from the inside, as shown at the end of the film, can only be caused by rapid decompression, for example, if his helmet were torn off. A hole in the sleeve, however, would be easily handled by the spacesuit without significant harm to the astronaut.
- In the reactor control room, when the temperature rose, Aurora burned herself on the lever, but at the same time all other objects in the room inexplicably did not heat up, and she calmly touches them.
- In the elevator used by the main characters, which passes directly through the ship's axis of rotation, gravity should be constantly absent, not just during movement. However, during movement inside the elevator, a conditional gravitation should be created, caused by its acceleration.
- One of the posters features symbols under the film's title: dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot – representing the S.O.S. signal in Morse code.
- The episode where the first mate leads the heroes to the engineering compartment is a reference to the scene of the conversation between Morpheus and Neo in the machine room of Zion in the film 'The Matrix Revolutions'. Notably, Keanu Reeves could have been cast in the role of Jim.
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