Sony Pictures is on the brink of green-lighting Passengers, an outer-space romance adventure starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as a couple onboard a spacecraft where everyone else is frozen in suspended animation. Conflicting reports surfaced Tuesday about the status of the project, though sources close to the studio tell Mashable that it’s not entirely cleared for takeoff just yet. But Jurassic World proved what Guardians of the Galaxy made us all want to believe — that Chris Pratt is a bona fide leading man. Add the solid bankability of Lawrence and the towering success of Gravity in 2013, and Passengers looks like a safe bet to get off the ground. Morten Tyldum, director of The Imitation Game, is set to helm the movie with a budget of more than $100 million. And a huge chunk of that cash will pay for the talent.
