Passengers Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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.

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction...until they discover the ship in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.

Cited as official plot version from sonypictures.com

Romance Sci-Fi

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Passengers.

• 
  Chris Pratt

  ... Jim Preston

  The Electric State, Mercy

• 
  Jennifer Lawrence

  ... Aurora

  Joy, Burial Rites

• 
  Michael Sheen

  Midnight in Paris, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

• 
  Laurence Fishburne

  The Amateur , Slingshot

Crew Behind the Film

The Passengers behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Morten Tyldum last directed The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Imitation Game. The film's writer Jon Spaihts last wrote Dune and Pacific Rim Uprising.

Director

Morten Tyldum

Screenwriter

Jon Spaihts

Producers

Stephen Hamel
Michael Mahern
Neal H. Moritz

Production Details

What we know about the Passengers movie production.

Key Facts

• Michael Sheen will play the robot that is traveling with Chris Pratt’s and Jennifer Lawrence’s characters (6/21/15).
• Producers tagged the movie as "Adam & Eve in Space" and "having the after-taste of 'Titanic' -- but everyone lives."

Production Updates for Passengers

Dec 2016

Completed

Changed Passengers movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Mar 2016

Post-Production

Changed the movie production status to Post-Production. The movie is now in the editing and finishing stages.

Jun 2015

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Preparations are underway to start production.

Mar 2014

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. Rachel McAdams' departure has caused a production delay.

Apr 2013

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Wayfare Entertainment has come aboard to finance and produce the sci-fi pic that will star Keanu Reeves. The script has been in development since 2009. A shoot in Montreal is being planned.

Aug 2009

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. The movie is likely in scripting, budgeting, or stuck in "development hell."

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