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No. Passengers is based on a screenplay by screenwriter Ronnie Christensen.
Passengers is actually a romance with a mystery that has a supernatural ending. It's the story of grief counselor Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway) and her relationship with one of her clients -- Eric (Patrick Wilson) -- who is among the ten survivors of an airplane crash. As their romance progresses, the surviving passengers begin to disappear one by one.
An engine caught fire due to mechanical problems. The situation was complicated, however, by the fact that the pilot was not at his post (he was outside the cockpit flirting with the stewardess) and, therefore, was unable to put out the fire.
Yes. At the end of the movie, we find out that Anne and the passengers she is counseling are all actually dead. They were in the crash together and needed to help each other pass on to the other side.
There are many survivor movies in which everything at the end turns out to be absolutely different from what the audience is led to believe at the beginning. Two examples include Soul Survivors (2001) and Carnival of Souls (1962), both of which tell stories about a young woman surviving a car accident only to start having paranormal visions. Likewise, in Jacob's Ladder (1990), a traumatized Vietnam vet starts having hallucinations after returning home. In Stay (2005), a psychiatrist fights to maintain a grip on his own reality while counseling a suicidal patient. Reeker (2005) and Identity (2003) are both movies about people stranded at old motels who start having haunting visions and getting killed one by one. The family in Dead End (2003) suffers a similar experience when they take a short cut while on their way to Christmas dinner. Two other recent movies with legendary twist endings include The Sixth Sense (1999), in which a young boy sees dead people, and The Others (2001), in which a woman is convinced that her house is haunted.
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