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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.
Dec 23, 2016 · Screenwriter Jon Spaihts (who used the hype for the script as collateral to move onto big projects such as Prometheus, Doctor Strange and Pacific Rim: Uprising) was involved in all script updates, but his original vision would up being changed as the Passengers screenplay went though various stars and studio backers.
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.
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.
