Pandorum stars Dennis Quaid, the veteran actor whose credits include Dreamscape, Enemy Mine, Frequency and The Day After Tomorrow. Quaid has a stockpile of different genre films, from Innerspace to The Alamo, from Vantage Point to his latest performance as the leader of a top-secret team of soldier-heroes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Co-star Ben Foster, who plays Bower with awesome new space weaponry, is one that many filmgoers have come to know over the past few years. His roles have been many and varied: Angel in X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, the sociopathic henchman bent on springing his boss (Russell Crowe) in 3:10 TO YUMA and, most recently (and notably to Fango readers), the prophetic Stranger in 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.

The celestial setting ties PANDORUM into humanity’s long fascination with the limitless unknown. …“We’ve been enthralled with space since the beginning of time,” Foster notes. “God lives in space. Heaven is up there. It’s the expanse. It’s the eternal black. It’s the silence. These are primitive, basic images that we’re all born with. It’s about as isolated as you can get. What makes the genre of science fiction so incredibly scary is that the technology of man has a tendency to fail us. So, as smart as we think we are, we’re still left to our basic, fundamental instincts. There’s nothing to hide behind up there other than our own brains, and that’s really exciting to play with.”The celestial setting ties PANDORUM into humanity’s long fascination with the limitless unknown. …“We’ve been enthralled with space since the beginning of time,” Foster notes. “God lives in space. Heaven is up there. It’s the expanse. It’s the eternal black. It’s the silence. These are primitive, basic images that we’re all born with. It’s about as isolated as you can get. What makes the genre of science fiction so incredibly scary is that the technology of man has a tendency to fail us. So, as smart as we think we are, we’re still left to our basic, fundamental instincts. There’s nothing to hide behind up there other than our own brains, and that’s really exciting to play with.”

For the type of film this is and the experience it gives, Alvart really maps it out. “He’s not just shooting to shoot. He knows what he wants, and what part of the shot he wants you to do what in. Going from THE MESSENGER, where we would have a nine-minute take, to PANDORUM, where there are 74 shots in one scene—it’s a different mechanism”, actor Ben Foster notes.

If you liked Sunshine, Event Horizon, and Alien, you do not want to miss this new feature.