Details

Release year: 2016

Storyline

A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.

Top credits

Directors

Morten Tyldum

Writers

Jon Spaihts

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence — Aurora Lane
Chris Pratt — Jim Preston
Michael Sheen — Arthur
Laurence Fishburne — Gus Mancuso

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• The third act of the movie is quite different from the original screenplay written by Jon Spaihts, in which a moribund Gus takes his own life by shooting himself into space, then Jim and Aurora have to contain the ship's damage. Jim never dies, but the 5,000 hibernation pods are ejected (Jim explains: "The hibernation system rebooted. It thinks the ship's in port. It's ejecting the empty pods." Aurora, horrified: "They're not empty"). In the final scene, the ship arrives in Homestead II 88 years later and Jim and Aurora's descendants come out of it.

• The voice of The Starship Avalon belongs to voiceover artist Emma Clarke, who is also one of the iconic 'Mind the Gap' voices on London Underground.

• The bar room is inspired by the bar room from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). In both films, the bartenders are dressed in red tuxedos, carry themselves in a sophisticated manner, have a strange friendship with the lead male, are not concerned with payment and are unable to leave. In addition, the primary light source in the bar and lounge shines from below rather than above. Finally, a variation on the iconic orange and red carpet design from Overlook Hotel hallways can be seen in the seating area.