Out Of This World PASSENGERS TV Spots and More Promotional Videos Experience the new PASSENGERS TV spots and more promotional videos! The film, directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Andy Garcia, and Laurence Fishburne. PASSENGERS will be released in theaters on December 21. The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the “Homestead Colony” and transporting 5,259 people has a malfunction in two of its sleep chambers. As a result two hibernation pods open prematurely and the two people that awoke, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) and Aurora Dunn (Jennifer Lawrence), are stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from their destination.