UPDATED: Pandorum photos and plot synopsis

Summit Entertainment asked me to take down the first poster for Christian Alvart's upcoming sci-fi thriller, Pandorum, earlier this week (they were very nice about it). However, Entertainment Weekly's officially published the first images from the film so I think I'll be okay with these.The film, which stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster is about: "Two crewmen awaken from hyper-sleep aboard a spacecraft. None of their equipment is working, and their memories are incomplete. What was their mission? How much time has passed? Where are they? Who are they? As they try to piece things together, they discover they are not alone, and the ship's new inhabitants - tribal warriors carrying crudely made weapons - are moving among them, intent on killing all aboard. As the space travelers unravel the frightening and deadly secrets the ship harbors, they realize the survival of mankind hinges on their actions. They must regain control of the ship before PANDORUM takes over."

UPDATE: Actor Cam Gigandet actually talked about the film in an interview with MTV two weeks ago. Apparently it hasn't even start shooting yet, as he was just about to head off to Berlin to start filming at the time. He explains a bit more about the story, saying "they're trying to find a different place to live, basically, and things go horribly wrong. It's about them figuring out the problem." Gigandet also cryptically mentions that it "could be in the future, but it could not be." That last part makes me think it could be some kind of Twilight Zone plot where the 2 astronauts wake, have no memory of what they are doing, danger ensues and it all turns out they are still on Earth and it has all been a training exercise to see how the effects of long term hyper-sleep, suspended animation, whatever, effect them.

It looks like across between Event Horizon and Alien to me. What do you think?

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