Pandorum

Cam Gigandet

Dennis Quaid

Ben Foster

Antje Traue

Cung Le

Eddie Rouse

Norman Reedus

André Hennicke

Friederike Kempter

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

Asia Luna Mohmand

Delphine Chuillot

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Julian Rappe

Domenico D'Ambrosio

Jon Foster

Jeff Burrell

Neelesha BaVora

Yangzom Brauen

Albrecht Marco

Dawid Szatarski

Nico Marquardt

Don Jeanes

David P. Johnson

Virginia Welch

What does the text say at the beginning of the movie?

1969: Man lands on the moon. World population: 3.6 billion 2009: Kepler telescope is launched to search for earth-like planets. World population: 6.76 billion 2153: Paleo-17 space probe lands on planet Tanis. World Population: 24.34 billion. Food and water shortages are commonplace. 2174: The battle for earth's limited resources reaches the boiling point. Spacecraft Elysium is launched.

Where did the Hunters come from?

Bower wonders whether they might have been specimens that escaped from the embryonic chamber holding livestock and wildlife re-populations to be released when they reach Tanis, but German biologist Nadia (Antje Traue) says that would be impossible. He then wonders whether something might have boarded the Elysium while in flight, but Nadia thinks that the creatures may have been with them all along. And she is right. As the movie progresses, it is learned that eight years into the mission, crew member Cpl Gallo (Cam Gigandet) succumbed to pandorum, killed his co-pilots, and then began screwing with the systems, waking up various passengers to either kill them or exile those who had 'behaved' into the cargo hold to to play his game, which involved them hanging each other from ropes and feeding on their own. Over the course of 923 years, the descendants of the cannibals adapted to the conditions on the ship becoming troglofaunal (cave-dwelling) and continuing Gallo's game as tradition.

What does 'Pandorum' mean?

In Milloy's original script, Pandorum was the name of the spaceship transporting prisoners to another planet. When the script was changed to feature a settlers' ship, the ship was re-named the Elysium, and the name 'Pandorum' was used as a nickname for Orbital Dysfunction Syndrome (ODS), a fictional type of psychosis that can develop during deep space travel. In the movie, Pandorum/ODS is described as beginning with tremors and nosebleeds and leading to paranoia, delirium, and hallucinations. As such, it is similar to a real disorder known as High Pressure Nervous Syndrome (HPNS), which can develop in deep sea divers when they descend to a depth of 500 feet or below while breathing a mixture of helium and oxygen.