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Where 'Passengers' future meets NASA's past; director, writer describe [i]"Passengers," the new sci-fi movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, is set hundreds of years in the future aboard an interstellar spaceship, but it was inspired by a real astronaut's experience almost half a century in the past. "Somebody asked me once who is the most lonely person in the history of the human race and it was probably one of the moon astronauts," Jon Spaihts, who wrote the original screenplay for "Passengers," which opened in theaters on Wednesday (Dec. 21), told reporters. "Like the person who has been farthest from the nearest human being in human history was Michael Collins, the [Apollo 11] astronaut in the command capsule orbiting the moon when the other two guys got to land."[/i]
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