Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Play Among the Stars in First 'Passengers' Trailer
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Say you had to spend your entire life with only one other person aboard a massive spaceship hurtling through the cosmos. If said individual were Jennifer Lawrence or Chris Pratt, it might not be so bad. In Passengers, this is exactly the predicament the Hollywood A-listers awake to, having been accidentally jarred from cryo-sleep a full 90 years before their ship (and the rest of its slumbering inhabitants) reaches its distant destination. What’s a couple of stranded astronauts who both happen to be easy on the eyes to do to pass the time for almost a century? Judging by the film’s first trailer, they dress up, date, and deal with a malfunctioning ship that is on the verge of self-destructing.
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Even in a season that’ll see a new Star Wars spin-off and a Harry Potter prequel, there may be no bigger winter 2016 release than Passengers, which will pair Hollywood’s two biggest young stars in an outer-space action-romance. Directed by The Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum from Jon Spaihts’ long-in-development script, this first big-screen pairing between Lawrence and Pratt looks like it’ll operate as an effects-heavy blockbuster genre hybrid. And though none of its visuals so far seem particularly novel — thanks to various Stanley Kubrick-inspired touches, from ships that recall those in 2001: A Space Odyssey to a robot bartender (Michael Sheen) who, along with his bar, seems transported from The Shining — its wannabe-epic aspirations are clear for all to see in its first promo.
Passengers docks in theaters on Dec. 21.
Watch the trailer for ‘Passengers’ director Morten Tyldum’s previous film, ‘The Imitation Game’:
