#Jennifer lawrence passenger movie android

He could prise open her pod, wake her up, pretend it was another malfunction like his. Jim piningly plays her autobiography-vidblogs archived on the ship’s computer database. Stricken with desolate loneliness, Jim mopes among the other pods and falls in love with one sleeping beauty of a fellow passenger – journalist Aurora Lane, played by Jennifer Lawrence.

#Jennifer lawrence passenger movie android

Most unsettlingly of all there is the regulation sci-fi robot: an android bartender called Arthur, played with uncanny-valley smileyness by Michael Sheen. He has access to no information other than the eerily unhelpful recorded hologram “help” messages intended to be watched on disembarkation. His awakening triggers the auto-support systems throughout the whole craft and Jim wanders around this vast empty ship, wide-eyed and then panicky as he realises he has 90 more years to go. But then his spacecraft, designed like a DNA helical corkscrew and spinning doggedly through the cosmos, runs into a meteor shower and takes a huge whack, sending a shockwave through the ship and accidentally jerking one of the pods open – Jim’s.

Like the other 4,999 passengers, he has been sleeping in a suspended animation hibernation pod because the journey will take around 130 years. Passengers: trailer for Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt sci-fi drama GuardianĬhris Pratt plays Jim Preston, an engineer and beefcake/ordinary guy – he later appears in smudgy overalls and T-shirt – who is emigrating from Earth on a megaspaceship to start a new life on a far-off planet called Homestead II.