Chris Pratt has left his mark as one of the biggest action stars in the world thanks to his roles in Guardians of the Galaxy and The Terminal List, but nearly 10 years ago, he starred in a space sci-fi epic that’s returned to streaming charts. Pratt stars alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Laurence Fishburne in Passengers, the 2016 sci-fi thriller following a spacecraft on a journey to a distant colony planet, but one traveler wakes up 90 years too early. Nine years after it first hit theaters, Passengers has mysteriously returned to VOD charts overseas in several countries.
Passengers, which also stars Michael Sheen and Andy Garcia, is not currently streaming anywhere in America at the time of writing. However, with the film picking up steam in international markets, it likely won’t be long before it returns to streaming in the U.S. The film earned a Rotten 30% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but a slightly more respectable 63% on the audience-driven Popcornmeter. It also found financial success, as most grandiose sci-fi epics often do, grossing $303 million at the box office against a reported budget of $110 million.
Passengers has drawn comparisons to other space sci-fi epics in the years since its release, particularly Interstellar and The Martian. The latter comparison is much more apt, though. Both Passengers and The Martian are dystopian survival tales; Matt Damon is the sole survivor for much of The Martian, while Pratt and Lawrence are both on the ship in Passengers. Jon Spaihts wrote the script for Passengers and Morten Tyldum directed the film. Tyldum has also recently directed episodes of Silo and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.
Chris Pratt’s Military Show Is Dominating Prime Video
In the last few years, Chris Pratt has garnered acclaim for his performance as James Reece in The Terminal List. While the show hasn’t been particularly beloved by critics, it has found a home with audiences. The first Terminal List offshoot, Dark Wolf, released this summer, showing how Pratt’s James Reece and Taylor Kitsch’s Ben Edwards came to be such good friends, and also showing how Edwards got a job working for the CIA. All episodes of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf are now streaming on Prime Video, and The Terminal List Season 2 is expected to be released sometime in 2026.
Rent or purchase Passengers on VOD platforms and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates.
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Release Date
December 21, 2016
Runtime
116minuntes
Writers
Jon Spaihts