Interview

Editor

How Star Wars‘ Editor Prepared Passengers for Lift Off

Oscar-nominated editor Maryann Brandon came straight off Star Wars: The Force Awakens to prepare Passengers for lift off. A frequent J.J. Abrams collaborator — she also edited his Star Trek Into Darkness — Brandon has became Hollywood’s go-to editor for big space epics in part because she brings an exacting eye to action sequences. Her ...

By  |  December 22, 2016

Interview

Special/Visual Effects

Passengers‘ VFX Supervisor on Creating Zero Gravity Mayhem

A serene, unusual spacecraft drifts through space. The Avalon is on a 120 year course, carrying 5000+ passengers to a new colony, plant-like and twinkling on its exterior, silent and gleaming on the inside. Its well-stocked and highly-designed but empty chambers are reminiscent of another era’s grand hotel, devoid of guests, ready to close for ...

By  |  December 21, 2016

Interview

Production Designer

Passengers Production Designer Takes Trip to Outer Space

Two actors and one space ship command center stage in Passengers, the science fiction star vehicle opening December 21. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt hold up their end of the entertainment bargain as travelers on the Starship Avalon who wake up way too early during their 120-year voyage to a distant planet. To craft a ...

By  |  December 5, 2016
Space Dating in Passengers With Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt

There are worse ways to spend your downtime aboard a spaceship than going on a date with a very attractive person. That’s what is happening in this new clip from Passengers that Sony Pictures has debuted, in which two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) find out that they've woken up aboard the spaceship they're traveling on, ...

By  |  November 28, 2016
Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt Wake up 90 Years too Early in 1st Passengers Trailer

Director Morten Tyldum’s Passengers is based on a delicious conceit; Two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) aboard a spaceship awake from cryogenic sleep 90 years before anyone else. Tyldum is no stranger to mind-bending stories; he was the man behind 2014’s The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the father of the computer.  While Turing’s ...

By  |  September 20, 2016