Why is the spacecraft seen in space at the start of Pandorum?
Since the spacecraft in Pandorum has already fallen to the planet Tanis, why does the movie show the spacecraft floating into space in the start? There is no evidence that this is a flashback.
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That event happens long before the events of the movie (I'm quoting from Wikipedia):
Eight years into the mission the ship receives a transmission from Earth in multiple languages: "You're all that's left of us. Good luck, God bless, and godspeed."
But the ending reveals:
However, what Gallo's hallucination said about the ship being lost in space was a red herring. As Nadia observes bioluminescent ocean life through the windows, and the computer displays that 923 years have elapsed since the mission launched - 800 of which the ship has spent stationary and underwater after arriving at Tanis and automatically landing itself in the ocean.
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What happened to the ship in Pandorum?
The ship landed on the new planet over 800 years ago. That the ship had actually arrived at its destination, and had self landed, which happened to be at the bottom of the sea.What is the story of Pandorum?
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In all the hyper-sleep pods, everyone was supplied with an accelerator that was supposed to help them adapt to Tanis . Instead, it could've made some people mutate and adapt to the ship. Gallo tells Payton that Earth was destroyed. The thousands of people on the ship are all that's left of humanity.PANDORUM (2009) Explained
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