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Pandorum is a 2009 science fiction thriller film written by Travis Milloy, directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009 in the United States, and on October 2, 2009 in the UK. The film's title refers to a fictional psychological condition of astronauts who fly through deep space.

As the story opens, a Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) and a Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) wake up from hypersleep aboard the sleeper ship Elysium. The ship is on a mission from an overpopulated Earth to the earth-like extrasolar planet Tanis on a colonizing mission. With no recent memory and the ship racked by power surges from the unstable reactor, Payton sends Bower to try and stabilise the reactor, since his position and latent memories imply that he is an engineer. While making his way through the ship, Bower finds emaciated corpses and has to avoid strange humanoid beasts with pale skins who use bladed weapons and lassos to catch and kill their prey. He also finds several people who had been awake for much longer than he and Payton, including a genetic engineer call Nadia (Antje Traue) and an agricultural expect called Manh (Cung Le). During his journey, Bower experiences the physical symptoms of a mental disorder encountered in long periods of space travel, called ‘Pandorum’. At one point, Payton tells of a prior case where the captain of a passenger ship went mad with the syndrome and, believing the flight was cursed, ejected all the passengers and himself into space, dooming them all. On the flight deck, Payton discovers another crew member, Corporal Gallo (Cam Gigandet), who reveals that he was part of the flight crew that received a final message from Earth, saying that the planet had been destroyed and the only hope for humanity was the Elysium. He claims that his other two crew mates suffered from an onset of Pandorum, and that he had to kill them in self-defense. Payton is wary of Gallo, noting his strange behavior. It is eventually shown that Gallo has Pandorum and is dangerously insane.

Avoiding the creatures, Bower, Manh and Nadia find their way into an enclosed area where another survivor called Leland (Eddie Rouse). Preparing to use his new visitors as food, he tells them the origins of the ships and the creatures; after the final message from Earth was received, one of the flight crew was overcome with Pandora and killed his two crew-mates, eventually sinking into a delusion that he was a god of the ship. Alone and delusional, he released several hundred of the passengers and sent them down into the massive hold to fight for survival, all as part of a sadistic game. Eventually bored, the crew member went into hypersleep and the awakened passengers had to survive and fight each other. Eventually, because a special enzyme given to the passengers during hypersleep to help them adapt to Tanis, the survivors evolved into the tribal creatures that now roam the ship.

While Payton tries to keep Gallo under control on the bridge, Bower convinces Leland to keep them alive so they can reboot the reactor and save the ship from destruction. They manage that and begin to make their way to the bridge, but Manh is killed on the way, though he manages to kill the leader of the creatures. On the bridge, after Payton injects Gallo with a sedative, the shocking truth is revealed; Payton is Gallo. He had lost all his memories during his hibernation, but regains them after injecting himself during his delirium. He then kills Leland, who arrives before the others, and waits for the others. When Bower and Nadia arrive, Payton admits his actions and tries to make Bower succumb to Pandorum by showing him where the Elysium is now; it crashed on Tanis and is now lying in the alien world's ocean. As Payton rants about building a new humanity within the ship and Bower fights his descent into madness, Nadia attacks Payton, but he easily defeats her. Bower manages to overcome his condition and breaks the window of the ship, getting himself and Nadia into a hibernation pod and activating the pod jettison action, sending everyone who is still alive to safety, while Payton and the creatures are killed as the ship is flooded. The final shot shows a view of the two-moon planet Tanis. A title card appears displaying: "Tanis Year One" followed by "Population 1,213..."