Keanu Reeves to star in Passengers

Posted on May 18, 2010
Filed Under Actors, News

A couple of days ago I saw the somewhat underrated film “The Gift.” And it is such a pleasure to see Reeves play “the bad guy”… I think this guy should be casted as pure evil more often. He truly has a gift for it. The whole hero thing is kind of old anyway… Anyway, Keanu is up to some new exciting stuff. The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Keanu Reeves has been locked up as the male lead in “Passengers.” His female love interest is still being sought for what the producers short-handed as “Adam & Eve in Space.” The pic also will have a couple of comedic roles and set designs created by some of the wizards who worked on “Avatar.”

Set in the future, “Passengers” centers on Jim Preston (Reeves), a mechanic on a 120-year journey to a distant colonized planet in another galaxy, who becomes the first traveler to experience pod hibernation failure. Having woken up 100 years too soon, he is stranded in the world of an interstellar spaceship with only robots and androids for companionship.

A year into his journey, he decides to wake up a fellow passenger, a beautiful journalist named Aurora. They fall in love but must soon deal not only with the revelation of Jim’s misjudged act of waking her but a major malfunction of the ship itself.

Well doesn’t that sound intriguing? Bring it on!

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