Talk:Passengers (2016 film)

Exec producers?
Can someone look into the validity of Scarlett Johansson, Leo DiCaprio, Freddie Highmore, and Taron Egarton, being executive producers? That list seems really random, and none of their names are mentioned anywhere else in the page. I think someone was coming up with a fantasy list of producers or something, which is really odd.

Yes Harris Lynn (talk) 10:24, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


 * For future reference the Infobox should only contain full producers and not contain any executive producers at all according to the documentation of template . -- 109.79.73.24 (talk) 20:01, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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50 Girls 50
Have had to revert this a couple of times now; if we want to say that Passengers "bears a resemblance to the EC Comics book 50 Girls 50, first published in August 1953, in which...", we need a source confirming that this happens in that comic. It's currently being added with a reference to a Telegraph article which gives spoilers for an early draft, but which doesn't say anything about the comic or how that draft might compare to it. An IP's edit summary reassurance that "it does happen in the comic" isn't enough. --McGeddon (talk) 22:35, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't have a primary source to provide, but I do want to note that an IP's edit summary is as good as anyone else's - see IPs are human too. Mihirpmehta (talk) 04:53, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * That said, edit summaries are not the right place for sourcing article claims, of course. Mihirpmehta (talk) 04:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

This is very misleading. The intro says the script was partially based on "50 Girls 50" as if it was an undisputed fact. The Production section only says that WP:METRO thought the story "bears a resemblance" to 50 Girls 50. So there is no reliable source for asserting this as fact. It needs to be removed.

If a film critic mentioned "50 Girls 50" then maybe it could be mentioned in the Critical response section. -- 109.79.73.24 (talk) 20:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Removed again. -- 109.76.130.33 (talk) 19:45, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Best Original Screenplay
What's with the missing nominee in the category "Best Original Screenplay" at the "89th Academy Awards"? The five official nominees were "Manchester by the Sea" (won), "Hell or High Water", "La La Land", "The Lobster", and "20th Century Women". What is the source of this confusion?--Bobbylon (talk) 07:05, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh? I checked, this film "Passengers" was nominated in only two categories, Score and Production Design It was not nominated in any other categories. -- 109.79.73.24 (talk) 20:14, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Mass exodus from a dying Earth?
I have seen this movie several times, and I see no evidence this is why people were going to the colony Homestead II. Jim seems to be looking for a better life, but Aurora, a wealthy writer who lived in the Chrysler Building in New York City, is seen being told by friends at a going-away party (where the Earth does not look to be dying) that they wish she were staying and will miss her. She explains in her biographical video that her plan is to go to Homestead II for one year, write about the experience, and then return to Earth, where more than two centuries will have passed. There is no way she would be planning to return to Earth if it were "dying". It seems much more that the situation is equivalent to people leaving Europe for the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Some were poor and desperate, others were wealthy and looking for chances to make their mark on a new frontier, but Europe wasn't dying and is still doing fine today (some would argue better than the US). SlackerInc1 (talk) 08:56, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Free adaptation of I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Hello,

Shouldn’t we add somewhere that the movie is probably a free adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon? (and also add on the short story’s article that it was freely adapted into this movie?)

Sources: actualitte.com, numerama.com, films.oeil-ecran.com, rtbf.be, etc.

Note: on WP:FR it is mentioned on both articles.

2A02:2788:228:2EE:96F:75EA:B242:8CB4 (talk) 11:58, 30 August 2023 (UTC)