First Photos From PASSENGERS, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence's Sci-Fi Romance
EW has debuted the first photos from Passengers, the new science fiction love story from The Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum that stars two of the biggest movie stars in the world, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Doctor Strange) wrote the script and it made The Black List back in 2007, but it's taken almost a decade to finally get it made. The story is set on a spaceship that's traveling across the universe to colonize a new planet, but thirty years into their 120 year journey, a malfunction causes two people to wake up from hypersleep...and as you might have guessed, they fall in love. Joey saw some early footage from the film at CinemaCon, and it blew his mind.
EW spoke with Tyldum about the movie, and while you should head there to read the whole interview, I'll grab a couple of choice quotes below:
It’s a very intimate movie while taking place on this epic scale. For me, it’s a story about what’s important to live a full life. What are the things we need as humans? It’s not afraid to entertain but at the same time it asks big questions about what does it mean to really feel happy. Every generation has its love story. I feel like this is it. I had to do it.
You will laugh and cry and hold your breath and be at the edge of your seat. It has chills. It also will make you smile and laugh a lot. We wanted a playful movie. And if you have Chris and Jen it’s impossible not to have — they’ve come up with a lot of stuff on set. They’re both extremely funny. They’d try this and that and come up with really funny stuff. They can go very dramatic but their great chemistry – they’re just so good. It is just fun to be around them and fun to be on this journey. In this day of sequels and reboots I think it’s refreshing that it is a completely original story with two of the best movie stars in the world. I’m very, very happy with the movie.
Passengers hits theaters on December 21, 2016.