17 Awesome Movie Concepts That Were Totally Botched

7. Passengers

The Pitch: One of the most buzzed-about scripts of the last few years, Passengers revolves around a colonist (Chris Pratt) who is woken from cryo-sleep 90 years early due to a ship malfunction, and in order to stave off loneliness, wakes up a fellow passenger (Jennifer Lawrence) to join him.

What Happened?: It didn't help that Columbia decided to withhold the fact that Lawrence's character is woken up by Pratt's from audiences, making a surprise reveal out of it even though it happens in the first half-hour of the movie.

This is by far the trickiest aspect of the film, and the one that Jon Spaihts' script sadly struggles to get right.

It would've made far more sense for this fact to be concealed from the audience from the outset and make Lawerence's Aurora the protagonist instead, while Pratt's Jim would transition into the villain role by act three.

Instead, in spite of the A-list cast and gorgeous visuals, Passengers ends up a troubling "romance" that's more creepy than affecting, and remains largely infamous for its major tonal misfire.