Ben Foster wakes up from hypersleep only to find his ship empty, his 60,000 shipmates gone and an unpaid power bill. It only gets worse from there. Something wicked is lurking around and not everyone left aboard speaks English. Ben Foster stars along with Dennis Quaid in this really juicy looking Sci-Fi Horror opening in Sept. Ben and fellow cast member Cung le sat down with Io9 to shed some needed light on the dark and gloomy elements of “Pandorum”. Here’s a small slice.

You mentioned that this movie is substantially violent, how so?

It’s a thriller, a scifi horror movie. It bounces through a lot of different genres. I imagine it will appeal to a wider audience, it certainly scared the shit out of me when I read it…. When I read this script, it had me. There were a lot of interesting physical twists and physical demands which were exciting to play with.

Let’s talk about the ship you’re riding around in. It’s supposed to carry 60,000 passengers, correct? Can you describe it at all?

It’s extraordinarily vast, because it plays with memory [the movie] and identity, it jumps around a bit. And I suppose the exciting thing, it would be sort of a drag to give it all away, but you start in a small space that can allow you to survive, the sleep chamber. You come out of the sleep chamber, which you see in the preview, and you have to confront this environment which expands and introduces a level of violence which you have to try and survive.