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Passengers(2016)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355644/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Officially footage for this highly-anticipated Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt pair-up is yet to be released to the public. However, the sci-fi romance is said to center around two people who are accidentally awakened 60 years too soon during a journey from one planet to the next.

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Director:
Morten Tyldum
Writer:
Jon Spaihts (screenplay)
Stars:
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen | See full cast & crew »
 
This will be interesting given the Writer/Director team

Spaihts (Writer) is famed for having most of his original script for Prometheus thrown out before Lindelof's re-write and has since joined Alex Kurtzman's "troupe" re-envisioning the old 30's/40's Monster Movies.

Whilst Tydlum (Director) made the fine, but mostly dull Imitation Game after the rather brilliant Scandianvia thriller Headhunters.

There is talent here, and I enjoy both Pratt and Lawrence (when she isn't phoning it in), so another interesting looking SF film for the Christmas season.

Hugo - An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.
 
It's an intriguing project. I'm a fair superhero movie fan, but honestly I'm a much bigger pure "science fiction" fan and I'd love to see more movies like this. 2013-2015 had quite a few of these but 2016 has been slow so far. I'm hoping these last 3-4 scifi movies I posted will be good, if not box office successes.


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Hugo Rune said:
This will be interesting given the Writer/Director team

Spaihts (Writer) is famed for having most of his original script for Prometheus thrown out before Lindelof's re-write and has since joined Alex Kurtzman's "troupe" re-envisioning the old 30's/40's Monster Movies.

Whilst Tydlum (Director) made the fine, but mostly dull Imitation Game after the rather brilliant Scandianvia thriller Headhunters.

There is talent here, and I enjoy both Pratt and Lawrence (when she isn't phoning it in), so another interesting looking SF film for the Christmas season.

Hugo - An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.
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Looks good. I'm a huge fan of both Pratt and Lawrence, and it looks like they both give good performances here. It doesn't look quite as grounded as I was expecting, but I'm not concerned with that as long as the story is good.
 
Been looking forward to this for years, ever since Keanu Reeves was attached.

Potential spoilers ahead...

Looks like they changed a major plot point. Back when Reeves was onboard, his character was supposed to have woken up by accident several decades early and then he woke up someone else because he needed company. Seems like that would have made for some better drama but I'm still looking forward to seeing where this goes.
 
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Commander Richard said:
Been looking forward to this for years, ever since Keanu Reeves was attached.

Looks like they changed a major plot point. Back when Reeves was onboard, his character was supposed to have woken up by accident several decades early and then he woke up someone else because he needed company. Seems like that would have made for some better drama but I'm still looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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I think that part still happens, but now it'll be a surprise.
 
Maybe I'm just getting a little tired of Superhero films, and that made me really like this trailer. I'm hoping this movie and Arrival are about the same or better quality than some of the better Sci Fi films that's come out in recent years like Gravity, The Martian, and Intersteller.
 
Commander Richard said:
Been looking forward to this for years, ever since Keanu Reeves was attached.

Looks like they changed a major plot point. Back when Reeves was onboard, his character was supposed to have woken up by accident several decades early and then he woke up someone else because he needed company. Seems like that would have made for some better drama but I'm still looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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Thank you for the spoiler...
 
"There's a reason we woke up early."

I hope future trailers and TV spots will keep that reason a mystery. I hate it when the marketing gives away some surprise plot point. :mad:

Kor
 
I'm surprised... I thought we already KNEW this from the early production reports, and I've just realized that none of the trailers have mentioned this particular plot point.

Mark
 
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