Jim, played by Chris Pratt, is woken up from stasis several decades too early in a one hundred and twenty year space flight. He is eventually unable to stand the loneliness and wakes up Aurora played by Jennifer Lawrence for some company. He lies to her about deliberately waking her up but she is eventually told by the android barman Arthur. After some conflict they resolve the betrayal, save the ship and the other sleeping passengers, get married, and build a would-be Eden on the ship with the years they have together.
In the remake the movie starts with Aurora waking up, stuck in her hibernation pod. Jim gets her out and she feels a sense of obligation to Jim for saving her. For the first few weeks she wanders the ship, finding Jim’s benign attempts to pass the time like basketball or the swimming pool. Then she finds his attempts to put himself back into hibernation in his sleeping pod by attempting to break into the control room. Eventually she finds out about his suicide attempt from which he was saved by Arthur, a hospitality android programmed to make sure the passengers are having a good time. It is revealed in his profile that Jim was a violent alcoholic on Earth that lied in his profile to get onboard, and that Arthur has been preventing him from killing himself for years. When Aurora sees him drunk for the first time, he chases her through the ship. Her sense of obligation to him is now gone and she avoids him. Aurora and the audience learn that Jim woke her up deliberately at the same time from video footage, and she resolves to kill him. Jim is passed out drunk in his bed and Aurora enters his room and tries to strangle him but is dragged off screaming by Arthur who wants to ensure they are having a nice trip. After some time, they sit at the bar together with Arthur serving them drinks, unable to kill each other or themselves. There is a cold, uneasy peace on board until an engine fails and Jim has to exit the ship to fix it. Before starting the engine again he hesitates, wondering if it would be better if the expedition failed, but ultimately saves the ship. He confesses that he is sorry for waking her up and for leaving her like this, and while Aurora begs him not to, he finally kills himself by letting himself run out of oxygen outside the ship. With Jim dead, Aurora is alone on the ship and she begins to scroll through the profiles of other sleeping passengers implying she wants to wake one of them up. To prevent it from happening again Arthur locks her in her room, but gives her food and water so she is comfortable until she dies of old age. The other crew members and passengers wake up at their destination and see Jim’s retrieved body next to Aurora’s body in bed next to each other holding hands, where Arthur had placed them concealing the story and making it seem as if they had a pleasant stay on board. There is a note in Jim’s hand that says “Wherever she is, there is Eden too.”
It is a tale of psychological torture and acknowledgement that wherever humans go wether onboard a spaceship in isolation, or on a new home world, our internal, latent problems come with us, and that humans would rather be miserable together than alone.
Matthew Cameron 
Jim, played by Chris Pratt, is woken up from stasis several decades too early in a one hundred and twenty year space flight. He is eventually unable to stand the loneliness and wakes up Aurora played by Jennifer Lawrence for some company. He lies to her about deliberately waking her up but she is eventually told by the android barman Arthur. After some conflict they resolve the betrayal, save the ship and the other sleeping passengers, get married, and build a would-be Eden on the ship with the years they have together.
In the remake the movie starts with Aurora waking up, stuck in her hibernation pod. Jim gets her out and she feels a sense of obligation to Jim for saving her. For the first few weeks she wanders the ship, finding Jim’s benign attempts to pass the time like basketball or the swimming pool. Then she finds his attempts to put himself back into hibernation in his sleeping pod by attempting to break into the control room. Eventually she finds out about his suicide attempt from which he was saved by Arthur, a hospitality android programmed to make sure the passengers are having a good time. It is revealed in his profile that Jim was a violent alcoholic on Earth that lied in his profile to get onboard, and that Arthur has been preventing him from killing himself for years. When Aurora sees him drunk for the first time, he chases her through the ship. Her sense of obligation to him is now gone and she avoids him. Aurora and the audience learn that Jim woke her up deliberately at the same time from video footage, and she resolves to kill him. Jim is passed out drunk in his bed and Aurora enters his room and tries to strangle him but is dragged off screaming by Arthur who wants to ensure they are having a nice trip. After some time, they sit at the bar together with Arthur serving them drinks, unable to kill each other or themselves. There is a cold, uneasy peace on board until an engine fails and Jim has to exit the ship to fix it. Before starting the engine again he hesitates, wondering if it would be better if the expedition failed, but ultimately saves the ship. He confesses that he is sorry for waking her up and for leaving her like this, and while Aurora begs him not to, he finally kills himself by letting himself run out of oxygen outside the ship. With Jim dead, Aurora is alone on the ship and she begins to scroll through the profiles of other sleeping passengers implying she wants to wake one of them up. To prevent it from happening again Arthur locks her in her room, but gives her food and water so she is comfortable until she dies of old age. The other crew members and passengers wake up at their destination and see Jim’s retrieved body next to Aurora’s body in bed next to each other holding hands, where Arthur had placed them concealing the story and making it seem as if they had a pleasant stay on board. There is a note in Jim’s hand that says “Wherever she is, there is Eden too.”
It is a tale of psychological torture and acknowledgement that wherever humans go wether onboard a spaceship in isolation, or on a new home world, our internal, latent problems come with us, and that humans would rather be miserable together than alone.
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