Topic: Passengers (2016 Sony Pictures sci-fi movie)
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-20-2016 12:34 PM
Sony Pictures trailer
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are two passengers onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction... only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind why they woke up.
In theaters December 21, 2016.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 11-03-2016 02:27 PM
I spoke today with Jon Spaihts, the screenwriter for "Passengers." We discussed the influences that real space exploration had on his script and the opportunities that outer space offers as a setting.
The interview will be shared on collectSPACE next month, before "Passengers" opens on Dec. 21.
Spaihts was earlier described by Variety as the "go-to guy for space thrillers" and wrote the script for Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" in 2012. He also penned Marvel's "Doctor Strange," opening in the theaters this weekend.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are about to become "passengers" on board the International Space Station.
The actors' new sci-fi film, "Passengers," is set to be sent to the space station for the astronaut and cosmonaut crew to screen, Sony Pictures announced Wednesday (Dec. 7).
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
"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."
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-21-2016 01:38 PM
Part of my interview with "Passengers" director Morten Tyldum, which did not make it into the above article, was about his passion for Stanley Kubrick's films.
There are at least three Kubrick movies where I pulled very distinct set design ideas from and put that into our movie.
I was able to identify one from "The Shining" (hint: in the film, look down). Tyldum confirmed another is from "2001: A Space Odyssey" but wouldn't say (or hint at) where that easter egg can be found. I think I know it, but will wait until others see the movie before sharing.
spaced out Member
Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
posted 12-22-2016 05:43 AM
When I saw the trailer last week I was immediately struck by the bar scene and barman as being straight out of The Shining.
I haven't seen the film itself yet but surely that has to be at least one of the set design ideas he took from Kubrick.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2016 08:11 AM
You're looking in the right direction, but the specific easter egg referencing "The Shining" is bit more subtle.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 03-11-2017 08:46 AM
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release "Passengers" on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on March 14. From The Digital Bits:
Extras on all versions will include "Outtakes from the Set," 3 featurettes (Casting the Passengers, Creating the Avalon, and On Set with Chris Pratt), and an interactive feature called "Book Your Passage" (with the fictional Homestead Company from the film). To this, the Blu-ray and Digital HD will add deleted scenes, a Passengers VR Experience First Look, and the "Space on Screen: The Visual Effects of Passengers" featurette.
Target will have a retail-exclusive version with the a Bonus DVD featuring "A Journey to the Stars: The Making of Passengers." Best Buy will also have retail-exclusive Steelbook packaging.
ScreenBid is holding an auction through March 17 of many of the props used in the film, including Jim's spacesuit:
posted 09-20-2016 12:34 PM
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