For those that don't know, Passengers is a movie starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. In the movie, a group 5,000 passengers is traveling to the planet of Homestead 2 in order to escape the overpopulated Earth and start a new life. Because the voyage to this planet is so long, (120 years) the passengers are put into hibernation pods, so as not to age. However, Chris Pratt's character, Jim Preston, finds himself waking up, completely and totally alone. After some exploration, he is dismayed to find that he has 90 years of his voyage remaining, meaning that there's no way he can possibly survive to see the arrival on Homestead 2.
After more than a year of being alone, having no one to talk to but the robot bartender that's in an unexplained "The Shining" bar setting, he finds a girl in a hibernation pod that he thinks is perfect for him, after reading the ship's information on her and listening to her logs. (She's a writer, or ugh.. something) Jim Preston eventually gives in and finds out how to wake her up by reading manuals on the hibernation pods. After more than a year of being happy with the girl he is more than ready to spend the rest of his life with, the robot bartender wiki leaks Jim's little secret to her.
The two characters avoid each other until they realize they need to work together in order to save the ship from being destroyed, along with the 4,998 other passengers and ~200 crew. They get to the point that the love each other again after they save the ship, and ugh...
Well the ending sucks. The movie ends with the two... heh, star crossed lovers doing something romantic right before it cuts to the rest of the ship waking up to a big room filled with vegetation and trees, and ugh... other stuff, for some unexplained reason.


After reading this synopsis I'm sure you can understand exactly why I want to make something out of the concept. I absolutely love the concept of Passengers; A dude wakes up too early, and can't live to see the end of the voyage then discovers that in order to save the other ~5,200 passengers he must risk his life to fix the ship. However, the end wasn't all that great, I felt that it was a throw away ending.


Now to my idea for the concept.
-Ship is still going to new planet due to overpopulation, famine, etc.
-A passenger still wakes up early
-Another person isn't woken up (Woohoo! No feeling of an overstretched romance!)
-There's probably not a robot bartender, due to originality, however, there'd be some sort of automated company that was capable of decent conversation and analysis
-There's a thing in the ship that is not only vicious, but it also carries a superintelligent virus.
- Passengers are immune to said virus because of a certain injection given when put into hibernation pods
-Moral dilemma set up where a choice between killing ~5,200 people on ship or decimating an entire planet's population has to be made. This seems like an obvious choice, however it isn't pragmatic due to an incomplete understanding of methods of containing a superintelligent virus or of this beast that roams the quiet ship.

Tell me what you think and hit me with some questions or obvious plot holes I'd face in writing this.