SUNSHINE by Danny Boyle

Published: April 24, 2007, 5:11 pm

The sun is dying, and spaceship ICARUS II with a crew of eight is dispatched with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan to reignite the sun and save Earth and mankind from freezing to death. Seven years earlier, ICARUS I was dispatched with the same mission, but Earth lost contact with ICARUS I and the fate of the mission is unknown. Getting closer to the sun and with increasing radiation levels, ICARUS II loses radio contact to Earth - but receive a distress beacon from ICARUS I. Capa (Cillian Murphy), the mission physicist, recommends to rendezvous with ICARUS I to salvage it’s nuclear device and double the chances for success. Chances are only theoretical, anyway: exact calculations of the conditions in the sun are impossible because of the high gravity and radiation levels which distort space-time. Trey (Benedict Wong) calculates the course to ICARUS I, but then something goes horribly wrong … A manned vehicle with an important mission on the way to a more or less

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