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Passengers is based on a screenplay by screenwriter Ronnie Christensen.

It is implied that the pilot, who is deeply regretful for his mistake and who was depressed about his divorce at the time, will either be trapped in purgatory or that he will go to hell, as he is seen descending downwards into a dark room.

There are many survivor movies in which everything at the end turns out to be absolutely different from what the audience is led to believe at the beginning. Two examples include Soul Survivors (2001) and Carnival of Souls (1962), both of which tell stories about a young woman surviving a car accident only to start having paranormal visions. Likewise, in Jacob's Ladder (1990), a traumatized Vietnam vet starts having hallucinations after returning home. In Stay (2005), a psychiatrist fights to maintain a grip on his own reality while counseling a suicidal patient. Reeker (2005) and Identity (2003) are both movies about people stranded at old motels who start having haunting visions and getting killed one by one. The family in Dead End (2003) suffers a similar experience when they take a short cut while on their way to Christmas dinner. Two other recent movies with legendary twist endings include The Sixth Sense (1999), in which a young boy sees ghosts, and The Others (2001), in which a woman is convinced that her house is haunted. The Lovely Bones (2009), tells the story of a teenage girl from the nostalgic days of the Seventies, who is a murder/rape victim and watches over her family from purgatory, and must get over her own emotions in order to move on to Heaven. Heart and Souls (1993), deals with four bus crash victims who become guardian angels for a young boy (he believes them to be his imaginary friends). The Invisible (2007) follows a teenage boy whose spirit is stranded on earth.