Sunshine
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction
Year: 2007
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Mark Strong, Troy Garity, Benedict Wong, Chipo Chung, Archie Macdonald, Sylvie Macdonald, Paloma Baeza
Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb with a mass 'equivalent to Manhattan Island'. The crew is made up of an ensemble cast consisting of Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, Chipo Chung, and Mark Strong.
The script was based on a scientific back-story that took the characters on a psychological journey. The director cast a group of international actors for the film, and had the actors live together and learn about topics related to their roles, as a form of method acting. To have the actors realistically react to visual effects that would be implemented in post-production, the filmmakers constructed live sets to serve as cues.
Previous science fiction films that Boyle cited as influences included Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1972 Tarkovsky's Solaris, and the 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien. Sunshine was released in the United Kingdom on 6
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