Italian director Gabriele Muccino, known primarily in Hollywood as the director of Will Smith Oscar Bait aka “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds”, has come onboard the Keanu Reeves sci-fi love story “Passengers”. Reeves was already onboard the Morgan Creek production, which is set for a summer start date, but now with Muccino attached, the project is halfway home. The film finds Reeves playing a passenger on a spacecraft making a centuries-long interstellar voyage to a new planet, but due to a glitch, is awakened 90 years too early. Still uncast is the female love interest, who in the film is awakened by Reeves’ character in order to keep him company.
At this point, I’m not sure if “Passengers” is strictly a drama that just happens to be set in space, or if there’s more to it. The writer is Jon Spaiht, who recently wrote the “Alien” prequel that Ridley Scott is attached to direct, so hopefully there’s more than just “a love story set on a spaceship”, as Muccino calls the movie.
Keanu Reeves is lost in space. Whoa!
