Keanu Reeves To Play Selfish Cryo Creep In Scifi Romance Feature
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"Passengers" Sci-fi romance pic stars Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Reeves To Play Selfish Cryo Creep In Scifi Romance Feature
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The premise sounds puzzling to me. Couldn't he just go back into cryo? You'd think there'd be some sort of failsafe and backup system and yadda yadda yadda. The film will probably elaborate the idea in a way that makes sense, though.
That said, honestly, not a bad idea for a movie.
The Pursuit of Happyness, now, that wasn't a bad film, but it did feel rather flat to me. It never really felt like it earned its denouement, it's a too cheery film to ever feel miserable even when it's supposed to. I don't know if that's the director's fault or not, but a story about two people alone on a spaceship for the rest of their lives is bound to feel exceptionally miserable in places, so I wonder how that'll turn out.
That said, honestly, not a bad idea for a movie.
The Pursuit of Happyness, now, that wasn't a bad film, but it did feel rather flat to me. It never really felt like it earned its denouement, it's a too cheery film to ever feel miserable even when it's supposed to. I don't know if that's the director's fault or not, but a story about two people alone on a spaceship for the rest of their lives is bound to feel exceptionally miserable in places, so I wonder how that'll turn out.
Perhaps it will be damaged beyond repair and the cryo pods only support one person so he can't shack up with another person in another pod
Lol 'trapped with an emotionless Keanu for 90 years'
"I know Kungfu"
I KNOW! You've told me that 40 times already!"
The movie sounds like Keanu's version of "Solaris"
Oh, and for some reason the ship has on board 90 years worth of food and other supplies needed to support two people for that length of time. There's also other facilites on board (like a bathroom, beds, cooking facilities) to facilitate a 90-year life.
That I'll roll with. Really all you need here is enough food. They probably have enough food to feed the entire ship's population for a few years as a precaution; given to just two people it'll probably let them survive.
The rest - bathooms, beds, etc. - one would expect on the ship too. You need amenities, you're going to be living the rest of your life on this planet. Maybe the ship dissembles by design, who knows.
I just assumed, from the story, it was a passenger ship to a planet that already has support facilities -food- there. It seems odd to me there'd be 90 years worth of food and water on this ship for two people.
Maybe you're right, but I just as equally assumed it was a new planet to colonize.
Assuming your case you'd just need a big enough ship population, so enough food to last them one or two days would last two people ninety years.
Anyway, it'll be up the screenwriter to iron those difficulties out.
It's kinda a neat idea.
They'll have to change the name.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449487/
And then Asylum will have to come out with Passengerz.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449487/
And then Asylum will have to come out with Passengerz.
They don't have to change the name -- Gladiator, The Brave One, Fire Down Below, Chaos, and the list goes on.
The Asylum's version would include a space dinosaur that's somehow loose onboard the ship. And maybe a space shark that actually lives in space and might eat the ship.
The Asylum's version would include a space dinosaur that's somehow loose onboard the ship. And maybe a space shark that actually lives in space and might eat the ship.
Assuming 3 meals a day for 365.25 days a year that's food for 1100 people to support one person for one year.
98,600 meals for 1 person for 90 years, 197,200 persons for 2 people for 90 years. So in order to support Keanu and his "victim" for 90 years there needs to be 197,200 meals on board. Naturaly, we can adjust that for how long the two will really live (90 years on top of the already 40-something Keanu is a stretch), how many meals a day they'll "really" need (3 is probably a lot given the low activity they'll likely be doing) still equates to a great deal of food needing to be on board.
If they have a replicator or some-kind-of synthesizer device that operated off of -gulp- "waste" that does what is needed to provide basic nutrition I'll roll with it. Hell, they may have even Jetson-ian "meal tablets" they just need to eat one a day of to get what they need. But it's still a detail that'll need to be ironed out. Details are sketchy, though. Further, one also may wonder why the ship would waste power for a life-support, gravity, or lighting system on a sleeper ship.
I really don't see how this is a stretch, the food and bedding, etc... I mean...it'd be pretty retarded to send people off to space, no matter the plan and destination, and not have those sorts. What if the ship veered off course, or for some reason everyone woke up and couldn't reuse the cryos again? Countless things could go wrong and people need to eat (and other things).
I still don't really get the premise though, I'll figure the Cryos will be one of those deals where it needs an operator of some sort to activate it (meaning the occupant can't turn it on and occupy it at the same time).
I still don't really get the premise though, I'll figure the Cryos will be one of those deals where it needs an operator of some sort to activate it (meaning the occupant can't turn it on and occupy it at the same time).
Doesn't seem that likely to me. 90 years is a long time to plan for. I would assume that these people all signed agreements saying that they understood the risks and if things go wrong, that's too bad. You have to assume with a mission like this that they wouldn't do it unless they were sure it would succeed as intended.
Maybe they have Star Trek type technology, replicators or something. You'd only need one replicator to provide for two people.
I don't see them stocking a space ship fill of 90 years worth of food and supplies for 100s or 1000s of people "just in case."
I mean, the Apollo rockets weren't stocked with a lifetime full of food just in case the rocket went off course so we need to maintain their lives as long as possible.
Not to mention on a ship full of 90 people, if they wake up and can't get back to sleep even enough food for them wouldn't be enough as it's likely that they'll have offspring. Now you're just in a mobius strip of failure where nothing you can do will maintain the population. Also "missing the destination" doesn't mean arriving at some other habitable planet. In space it more than likely means ending up nowhere.