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The Island
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
2005 · Directed by Michael Bay · 136 min · Action · Thriller · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
Your time will come...
Plot
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support life with the exception of a pathogen-free island. Each week, one resident gets to leave the compound and live on the island by way of a lottery.
Lincoln begins having dreams that he knows are not from his own experiences. Dr. Merrick, a scientist who runs the compound, is concerned so he places probes in Lincoln's body to monitor his cerebral activity. While secretly visiting the off-limits power facility in the basement where technician James McCord works, Lincoln discovers a live moth in a ventilation shaft, leading him to deduce the outside world is not really contaminated.
Lincoln follows the moth to another section, where he discovers the "lottery" is actually a system to selectively remove inhabitants from the compound, where the "winner" is then used for organ harvesting, surrogate pregnancies, and other important purposes for each one's wealthy sponsor, of whom they are clones.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Roberto Orci, Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman
- Cinematography: Mauro Fiore
- Edited by: Christian Wagner, Paul Rubell
- Music: Steve Jablonsky
- Production design: Nigel Phelps, David E. Scott
- Produced by: Michael Bay, Ian Bryce, Walter F. Parkes
Cast
- Ewan McGregor as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
- Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan
- Djimon Hounsou as Albert Laurent
- Sean Bean as Dr. Bernard Merrick
- Steve Buscemi as James 'Mac' McCord
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Starkweather Two Delta / Jamal Starkweather
- Ethan Phillips as Jones Three Echo
- Brian Stepanek as Gandu Three Echo
- Noa Tishby as Community Announcer
- Siobhan Flynn as Lima One Alpha
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: DreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Parkes+MacDonald Production
- Budget: $126,000,000
- Box office: $162,949,164
- Themes: genetics, love of one's life, escape, freedom, dystopia, transhumanism, false memory, plague, human clone, 2010s
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