The decision at the front of this story is icky at best, and Spaihts has addressed the criticism of his hero’s highly unethical actions in an interview with io9: He, of course, does not tell her that he was responsible for her pod’s “malfunction,” and the two hit it off and it’s only a matter of time before she learns for herself. That is until he develops a stalker-like crush on fellow passenger named Aurora ( Jennifer Lawrence) and decides to do the morally-bankrupt thing of waking her up and essentially dooming her to share his same fate, but together. Facing the prospect of dying alone, Jim finds himself considering suicide. With no way to correct this error, he finds himself alone on the ship with nothing to do. Passengers: A Problematic PremiseĬhris Pratt‘s character Jim Peterson was woken up 90 years too early. The rest of this article contains spoilers you have been warned. Sony has cleverly hidden the ethical quandary at the core of this movie from the trailers: The malfunction on the spaceliner has not woken up two passengers, but one. But the marketing presents a different version of the film than is seen in theaters. The premise for the film is that two passengers are awakened 90 years early on a spacecraft transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet. Sony Pictures eventually won the project at auction and set director Morten Tyldum to helm a $110 million version of the project starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, and it’s in theaters now (though it’s not getting great reviews). For years the project struggled to the big screen, at one point lining up Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt to star in a $35 million version of the story. In 2007, Passengers ranked highly on the Black List, a listing of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Now that the film is out in theaters, I thought we could discuss how the ending of the film failed its premise, and how the original Passengers ending from the screenplay was different from the final film. It’s taken almost a decade for Passengers to hit the big screen. Posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2016 by Peter Sciretta
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