Keanu Reeves to star in sci-fi love story
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the female love interest is still being sought for what the producers short-handed as "Adam & Eve in Space." The film also will have a couple of comedic roles and set designs created by some of the wizards who worked on Avatar.
Set in the future, Passengers centers on Jim Preston (Reeves), a mechanic on a 120-year journey to a distant colonized planet in another galaxy, who becomes the first traveler to experience pod hibernation failure. Having woken up 100 years too soon, he is stranded in the world of an interstellar spaceship with only robots and androids for companionship.
A year into his journey, he decides to wake up a fellow passenger, a beautiful journalist named Aurora. They fall in love but must soon deal not only with the revelation of Jim's misjudged act of waking her but a major malfunction of the ship itself.
The original script was penned by screenplay by Jon Spaihts but is now getting a polish and will begin shooting next January, though exactly where is still unclear.
The film is essentially a love story but with sophisticated robotics, a crusty older character and a comic humanoid servant.
No production date has been set.
Passengers is in development and stars Keanu Reeves, Reese Witherspoon. The film is directed by Brian Kirk.
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Jimthar
sounds pretty cool. i can see the LIS or W-E comparisons but i think this will stand on it's own. it does sound like an interesting movie.
good to see keanu working again. he hasn't been in much lately. last film i remember seeing him in was STREET KINGS, which was an awesome movie.
speaking of keanu......does anyone know what the status of CONSTANTINE 2 is?? i really wanna see that one.
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Err
@narzion, i agree, but like bizarro wall-e or wall-e in reverse.
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Cripple
I have faith in this only because Muccino is directing.
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Rufio
sounds a little like Lost in Space movie. hmmm... dunno.
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Narzion
this sounds like WALL-E
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Remy72883
this sounds good and it sounds like it gonna be funny
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the Narrator
Lol. This actually really caught my attention. It can see how it'd be Adam and Eve in space. Adam first is alone in the garden (interstellar ship). He has all the animals in Eden (robots) but is still alone. God gives him Eve (the girl), and they live together and name the animals (robot pet names.) As cheesy as that may sound it reminds me of iRobot meets Star Trek meets Short Circuit. I think it'll be cool.
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Chris
Sounds interesting
3 years agoby @unknown21Flag