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Jupiter Ascending
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJohn Toll
Edited byAlexander Berner
Music byMichael Giacchino
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • January 27, 2015 (2015-01-27) (Sundance Film Festival)
  • February 6, 2015 (2015-02-06) (North America)
  • February 19, 2015 (2015-02-19) (Australia)
Running time
127 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United States
  • Australia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$176.000.000[3]
Box office$51.500.000[3]

Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera[4] film written, produced, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski. Starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, the film is centered on Jupiter Jones (Kunis), a down-on-her-luck cleaning woman, and Caine Wise (Tatum), an interplanetary warrior who informs Jones that her destiny extends beyond Earth. Supporting cast member Douglas Booth has described the film's universe as a cross between The Matrix and Star Wars[5][6][7] while Kunis named its underlying themes indulgence[8] and consumption.[9][10][11]

The film was co-produced by Grant Hill, who acted as executive producer on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and as producer on V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin, and Cloud Atlas, making Jupiter Ascending his seventh collaboration with the Wachowskis. Several more longstanding Wachowski collaborators since the creation of The Matrix films have contributed to the picture,[12] including production designer Hugh Bateup, visual effects supervisor Dan Glass, visual effects designer John Gaeta, supervising sound editor Dane Davis and costume designer Kym Barrett. Other notable past collaborators include Speed Racer's composer Michael Giacchino, Cloud Atlas' director of photography John Toll along with its editor Alexander Berner and hair and make-up designer Jeremy Woodhead, who worked on both.

The film has received generally negative reviews; critics generally praised the ambition of the film and the visual effects, but criticism tended to be heavier, focusing on poor acting, an over-reliance on special effects, and the cluttered storyline.

Plot

Unknown to Earth's residents, life on Earth and countless other planets has been seeded[13] by families of alien royalty[14] for the purpose of harvesting the evolved living creatures once they reach a "Darwinian state of perfection" to produce a type of youth serum that allows them to live forever.[15] When the matriarch of the House of Abrasax, the most powerful of the alien dynasties, dies[9] her children Balem (Eddie Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (Douglas Booth) are at war over the inheritance.

Meanwhile, Maximilian Jones (James D'Arcy) meets Aleksa (Maria Doyle Kennedy) while in Petersburg. They get married and Maximilian plans to name their unborn daughter Jupiter, after the biggest and most beautiful planet in the solar system, fueled by his undying love for the planets and his reliable telescope. At first unrelenting to the name, after Maximilian is killed in a raid by Russian thieves, Aleksa names their daughter Jupiter and they move to Chicago to live with Aleksa's family.

Many years later, Jupiter (Mila Kunis) works with Aleksa and her aunt and cleans the homes of wealthy people. To buy a telescope, Jupiter agrees to sell her eggs with the help of her cousin Vladie (Kick Gurry). Under the alias of Katharine (Vanessa Kirby), Jupiter panics during the procedure and the doctors and nurses turn out to be messengers sent to kill Jupiter after her DNA sequence is found to have lined up in exactly the same order as Balem, Kalique, and Titus' mother's DNA sequence, making her a potential heir and ruler of the earth. She is saved by Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military fighter and hunter who was sent by Titus to track Jupiter down.

Stinger Apine (Sean Bean), an old friend of Caine's who gave up his career and his wings to save Caine after a disastrous incident many years ago, agrees to help Jupiter, but she is taken by Kalique, who explains to her the seed of immortality and shows her the nectar that keeps Kalique and her siblings young. Revealing to Jupiter her true residence as heir to the galaxies and the one who can take the earth away from Balem, Jupiter becomes queen, but is kidnapped by Titus, who convinces her to marry him after showing her that the nectar that keeps them immortal cost the lives of one hundred mortal human beings.

Titus reveals his true plan to kill Jupiter and become king and ruler of the earth before throwing Caine into the void, but Caine survives and saves Jupiter. By now, Jupiter is fed up and asks to be returned home, but her family has been taken hostage by Balem who tells her to hand over her title as queen or else her family will die. Realising that Balem can claim Earth only if she signs it over, Jupiter decides not to at the last moment, realizing she can either save her family and let the rest of the world die or she can save the billions of people on Earth instead.

Balem tries to kill Jupiter, revealing that his mother had asked Balem to kill her because she hated her life. Jupiter beats Balem, causing him to fall to his death and she escapes where she is rescued by Caine, Stinger, and Diomika Tsing, the captain of an Aegis escort ship (Nikki Amuka-Bird). Jupiter's family is safely returned home with no memory of her disappearance, while Jupiter remains queen of the earth. Vladie and her family buy her the telescope she wanted and Caine is granted back the wings that were taken away many years prior.

Cast

  • Mila Kunis as Jupiter Jones, an unsuspecting, unlucky, Earth-born cleaning woman whose genetic structure marks her as royalty and the heir to Earth. Kunis describes her character as unhappy with her job and life, but also lazy and with no aspirations to do anything about it, until Caine finds her.[9]
  • Channing Tatum as Caine Wise, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter. Caine is a defective genetic splice, half-albino and with both wolf and human DNA.[16] He has a tremendously powerful sense of smell that allows him to track a gene through the universe.[17] Tatum had to wear a mouthpiece to change the shape of his lower jaw, which prevented him from closing his mouth and gave him trouble when he had to talk.
  • Sean Bean as Stinger Apini, a "Han Solo-type character".[18] Stinger is spliced with bee DNA, which gives him some of their characteristics: wings, speed, special vision and a sense of loyalty. Stinger was in the military with Caine but when Caine got into trouble and Stinger stood up for him, his wings were removed and he was exiled to Earth.[9] He lives a normal life on Earth along with his daughter, whom he describes as the only good thing he's done in life, until she falls ill and is in need of a special nectar.[11]
  • Eddie Redmayne as Balem Abrasax, alien royalty whose family engages in the planetary business, trading in youth serum.[9] He is the eldest of the three Abrasax siblings and serves as the main antagonist of the film because he wants Earth for himself.
  • Douglas Booth as Titus Abrasax, Balem's brother. Booth has described his character as "a bit of a playboy", mentioning his spaceship, as described in the script, as a cross between a Gothic cathedral and the Playboy Mansion.[9]
  • Tuppence Middleton as Kalique Abrasax, Balem's sister. She approaches Jupiter and befriends her, but like her brothers she has ulterior motives.[9]
  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Famulus, a half-human, half-deer genetic splice.[19][20]
  • Terry Gilliam as Seal and Signet Minister[21] in a scene that is an homage to Gilliam's Brazil.[22]
  • David Ajala as Ibis, the leader of the cyber hunters pursuing Jupiter and Caine.[23]
  • James D'Arcy as Maximilian Jones, Jupiter's father.
  • Kick Gurry as Vladie, Jupiter's cousin.
  • Bae Doona as Razo
  • Charlotte Beaumont as Kiza, Stinger's daughter.[24]
  • Tim Pigott-Smith as Malidictes
  • Edward Hogg as Chicanery Night[25]
  • Nikki Amuka-Bird as Diomika Tsing
  • Vanessa Kirby as Katharine[26]
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy as Aleksa, Jupiter's mother.
  • Christina Cole as Gemma Chatterjee

Production

Development

In 2009, Warner Bros' president Jeff Robinov approached The Wachowskis about creating an original intellectual property and franchise. Development began two years later, with the production and visual effects teams doing pre-production work based on a first draft of the script, while The Wachowskis were shooting the future segments of Cloud Atlas.[9] The story was partly inspired by Lana's favorite book,[27] the Odyssey.[28] "It was making me super-emotional," Lana has said. "The whole concept of these almost spiritual journeys and you’re changed." Another inspiration was The Wizard of Oz which Lana contrasts to the Odyssey. "Dorothy is pretty much the same at the end as she is at the beginning. Whereas Odysseus goes through such an epic shift in his identity."

Production design

Producer Grant Hill and visual effects supervisor Dan Glass have noted that The Wachowskis never repeat themselves. Hill has described the design as an original take on the look of space environments, while Glass mentioned it was influenced by cities around Europe rather than science fiction touchstones. Examples include Renaissance architecture, modern glass and Gothic art.[9]

Filming

The film was a co-production between the United States' Warner Bros. Pictures and Australia's Village Roadshow Pictures.[29] Roberto Malerba and Bruce Berman served as executive producers.[30] Principal photography commenced at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden on April 2, 2013. Filming also took place at Ely Cathedral in England.[31][32] The production remained in the London studio through June, then moved to various locations in Chicago, Illinois throughout late July and August.[30] Minor reshoots to clarify plot points[33] took place in January and early May of the next year, the latter of which took place in Bilbao, Spain.[34] This was the second feature that cinematographer John Toll shot digitally, using Arri Alexas and Codex Recorders, after Iron Man 3,[35] in part due to the visual effects element.[36] Legend3D handled the stereoscopic conversion of the film, having recently integrated the Mistika post-production software into their pipeline.[37] Vision3's Chris Parks is the stereoscopic supervisor of the film.[38][39]

An eight-minute long chase sequence, code named "Fifty-Two Part" by the film's crew, depicts Jupiter and Caine fleeing from aliens and spaceships in downtown Chicago shortly after they first meet. It was the longest sequence in the script, involving some of the film's most difficult stunts. To complete it, Kunis and Tatum had to film every day for six months.[11]

Effects

Several of the film's effects rely heavily on practical stunts instead of CGI. Tatum has noted there was minimal use of digital doubles and instead most stunts were done by the principal actors or stuntmen attempting to match the pre-vis sequences.[17][40][41][42] For the scenes of Tatum's character flying using antigravity boots, Glass has stated that his team invented a way to use stuntmen instead of doing them digitally, despite the limited available time to shoot them.[43] They created a rig of six cameras, called the Panocam, which was mounted on a helicopter and covered nearly 180 degrees of the action. During post-production, the directors could combine the overlapped filmed footage, essentially creating a camera that could swing around the action independently of the helicopter's actual flying path. The invention piqued the interest of other directors who have subsequently used it in their own movies.

Visual effects vendor Framestore used Vicon T40 cameras for pre-vis and motion capture purposes, the same camera system they used in the visually acclaimed Gravity.[44]

Music

The film's music was composed by Michael Giacchino, who also scored the Wachowskis’ 2008 film Speed Racer.[45] On June 10, 2013, Giacchino tweeted that Ludwig Wicki was conducting the film’s score at Abbey Road Studios in London.[46] In August, Giacchino stated: “We’re actually recording all the music first, before they’re even done shooting. It’s been done sort of backwards, and it’s much more freeing doing it that way. I’m not locked down to any specific timings and what the film is doing. I can do whatever I want. It opens up a lot more possibilities.”[47] The Wachowskis first used this approach during production of Cloud Atlas at the recommendation of co-director Tom Tykwer who has made all his movies this way, and have since commented they will never make a movie without recording the music first.[48]

Release

The film was initially to be released on July 25, 2014,[49] but it was later shifted to July 18, 2014.[50] On June 3, 2014, the film's release was delayed to February 6, 2015 due to additional time needed to complete over 2,000 special effects shots of the film[51] and prepare an effective marketing campaign.[33] The film was released in IMAX 3D, as was its competitor Seventh Son from Universal Pictures.

Jupiter Ascending had a surprise premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015 at the Mary G. Steiner Egyptian Theatre in Park City.[52]

Reception

Box office

As of February 8, 2015, Jupiter Ascending had grossed $19 million in North America.[3]

The film was originally expected to gross between an estimated $21 to $23 million in its opening weekend.[53][54][55] The film also features in the list of "The Riskiest Box Office Bets of 2015" published by screenrant.com.[56] The film reportedly earned a gross of $1 million from Thursday preview.[57] However, the film was a box office bomb, earning an estimated $6.4 million in its opening day, and later being forecast to open at around $18 million not nearly enough to make back its $175 million budget.[58][59] The film opened in 3rd place with an estimated $19 million. Overseas the film took the top spot for the opening weekend earning a solid $32.5 million. [60]

Critical response

Jupiter Ascending has received generally negative reviews from critics.[61] Criticism has centered on the film's reliance on special effects and Redmayne's acting.[62] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 22%, based on 153 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Pleasing to the eye but narratively befuddled, Jupiter Ascending delivers another visually thrilling misfire from the Wachowskis."[63] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 40 out 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[64] In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Jupiter Ascending an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[65]

The film received a "secret screening" at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival which was invitation only and did not include members of the press. Variety's Ramin Setoodeh reported that the theater was half empty,[66] a handful of patrons walked out during the movie and once it finished reactions were negative.[67] An attendee was quoted as having hated it for being "just ridiculous" while screenwriter Neville Kiser liked it and commented that the PG-13 film would fare better with the intended audience of teenagers. Setoodeh reported many people were in agreement that the choice of Sundance was odd.[68]

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