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Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
2013 · Directed by Joseph Kosinski · 124 min · Action · Science Fiction · Adventure · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Earth is a memory worth fighting for.
Plot
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers (mostly "Scavs" in dialogue) attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable.
Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have relocated to a colony on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, except for Unit 49—technician Jack and his communications officer Victoria ("Vika")—who are scheduled to join them in two weeks. The pair oversee hydro rigs that convert seawater into fusion energy for the Tet, the last remaining human colony ship in orbit. Though Jack and Victoria are romantically involved and have had their memories erased for security reasons, Jack experiences recurring dreams of an unknown woman. He also secretly visits a hidden, verdant valley where he has built a lakeside cabin and collects relics of Earth's past.
While investigating a missing combat drone—autonomous, highly advanced, and heavily armed—Jack is nearly captured by Scavengers. Later, he discovers the Scavengers are transmitting a signal into space. A module of a NASA spaceship crash-lands at the signal's coordinates, carrying five humans in suspended animation ("delta sleep"), including the woman from Jack's dreams. Drones arrive and terminate four of them, but Jack protects the unconscious woman and brings her pod back to Unit 49's base.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt
- Cinematography: Claudio Miranda
- Edited by: Richard Francis-Bruce
- Music: Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Trapanese
- Production design: Darren Gilford
- Produced by: Barry Levine, Duncan Henderson, Peter Chernin, Joseph Kosinski
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Jack
- Morgan Freeman as Beech
- Olga Kurylenko as Julia
- Andrea Riseborough as Victoria
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Sykes
- Melissa Leo as Sally
- Zoë Bell as Kara
- Abigail Lowe as Julia's Child
- Isabelle Lowe as Julia's Child
- Booch O'Connell as Tourist (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America, United Kingdom, Japan, Iceland
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Monolith Pictures, Chernin Entertainment
- Budget: $120,000,000
- Box office: $286,168,572
- Themes: spacecraft, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, based on comic, space, drone, surveillance, human vs alien, wonder, 2070s
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