Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Cinematography
Alwin Küchler's gold filter? Basically shot the sun as a character.
Score
John Murphy + Underworld = your anxiety has a soundtrack now.
Direction
Boyle pivots from hard sci-fi to slasher without blinking.
Director
Danny Boyle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
NASA advised on the ship design; the oxygen garden was based on real closed-ecosystem research. Boyle still made the physics wobbly because 'scary beats accurate.'
The third-act pivot to slasher horror divided audiences in 2007, but has since been reclaimed as prescient—it's essentially 'what if Event Horizon was actually good?'
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