--- title: 'Imitation Game' Director on His Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence Movie description: The Oscar-nominated director will take on a sci-fi film called "Passengers" next canonical: https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-13T21:46:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:25:22.914Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'The Imitation Game' Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence og:description: The Oscar-nominated director will take on a sci-fi film called "Passengers" next og:url: https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt579eae68cfe008cc/69877f472dce015d7f9dd8ce/jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Imitation Game' Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence twitter:description: The Oscar-nominated director will take on a sci-fi film called "Passengers" next twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt579eae68cfe008cc/69877f472dce015d7f9dd8ce/jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _The Imitation Game_ Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence ## Video: Morten Tyldum: 'The Imitation Game' is About Lost Love [Watch (HLS stream): Morten Tyldum: 'The Imitation Game' is About Lost Love](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/eKNpPLhW.m3u8) (1:52)  _Published 2015-02-13. Director Morten Tyldum explains why the Oscar-nominated film 'The Imitation Game' focuses on losing love and being different._  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Feb 13, 2015 9:46 PM UTC  Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Jennifer Lawrence and Chris PrattGetty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Feb 13, 2015 9:46 PM UTC Director Morten Tyldum will find out next week whether he wins an Oscar for the Benedict Cumberbatch film, _The_ _Imitation Game_. In the meantime, he’s already getting started on his next project — a science-fiction romance called _Passengers —_ which will see him continuing to work with some of the most in-demand talent in Hollywood. He tells TIME that Chris Pratt has signed on to the project, while Jennifer Lawrence is still in negotiations. The movie focuses on a man who unexpectedly awakens from cryogenic sleep while on a journey to a distant planet; he wakes up a fellow passenger, and the two begin a romance. Though Pratt has some experience filming movies that take place in space, Tyldum says that _Passengers_ will be very different from _Guardians of the Galaxy_. “This is a love story, a character drama between two people. It just happened to be in space, which is the beauty of it. It’s a very different kind of sci-fi—not laser guns and fights,” Tyldum says. “It’s a very existential film about what we need to be fulfilled as people. It goes very deep and very dark and very dramatic.” Like another space movie, _Gravity_, expect the two main characters to be the only ones who get a lot of screen time. “It’s more or less just the two of them in the whole film.” says Tyldum. “There’s one other character who is woken up at the end. And then there’s an android who is human looking from the waist up and then a pole from the waist down who is a bartender with pre-programmed dialogue. Those are the only people in the whole movie, so it’s really fascinating.” _Read next:_ [_This Honest Boyhood Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie_](http://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/"},"headline":"The Imitation Game Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence","datePublished":"2015-02-13T21:46:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:25:22.914Z","description":"The Oscar-nominated director will take on a sci-fi film called Passengers next","url":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/","keywords":["movies","Jennifer Lawrence","chris pratt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt579eae68cfe008cc/69877f472dce015d7f9dd8ce/jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt579eae68cfe008cc/69877f472dce015d7f9dd8ce/jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt","caption":"Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/","name":"The Imitation Game Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Morten Tyldum: 'The Imitation Game' is About Lost Love","description":"Director Morten Tyldum explains why the Oscar-nominated film 'The Imitation Game' focuses on losing love and being different.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/eKNpPLhW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-13T14:43:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/eKNpPLhW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/","duration":"PT1M52S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3709479/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence-passengers/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```