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Dec 20, 2016 · Jon Spaihts’ screenplay for Passengers attracted Hollywood’s interest for many years, acquired a huge fan base, and became a Black List hit as one of the industry’s best unproduced scripts.
The pacing is perfect, given the story PASSENGERS seeks to tell and the ultimate resolution makes sense when viewed from the emotional realities that each character experiences.
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- Jon Spaihts
- The Black List Script
- The Original Ending
- Conclusion
What really makes Passengers a disappointment is that it has been hyped for so long. It placed third on the Black List in 2007, the always lauded list of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood (it’s previously featured Argo, Chronicle, The Prestige, (500) Days of Summer and Spotlight), was originally set to star Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt, and ...
As you might expect, the third act was where things changed the most for Passengers. The general idea is still there - the ship's problems are caused by a stray meteor and things begin to tumble after a third person wakes up - but everything is more coherent in the original screenplay. For starters it’s better set up (the problems with the core com...
Passengersis a big disappointment and many of its problems lie in the shooting script draft. Neither Pratt, Lawrence nor Tyldum are at their best here, but it's the ultimately-nonsensical story that really hampers the film. Would the original script have led to a better movie? It’s debatable, seeing as the original screenplay has its faire share of...
- Alex Leadbeater
- Content Director
Dec 23, 2016 · IEEE Spectrum’s Stephen Cass talked with the screenwriter of Passengers, Jon Spaihts, about his inspiration for the movie and the process of bringing his ideas to life in a big Hollywood movie. (Mild spoilers below. The conversation has been edited for concision and clarity.)
Jan 9, 2017 · A spoiler-filled conversation with Passengers screenwriter Jon Spaihts where he goes into detail about the ending and how it changed during development.
- Steven Weintraub
- Editor-In-Chief
Dec 21, 2016 · For “Passengers,” Spaihts created a setting that is both expansive and claustrophobic. All of the action takes place on a starship traveling across light-years of emptiness to a colony...
He also wrote the screenplays for the films Prometheus (2012), Passengers (2016) and Doctor Strange (2016). For his work on Dune, Spaihts was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
