'Sunshine' and 'Event Horizon' Bring Deep-Space Madness to Gruesome Heights

'Sunshine' and 'Event Horizon' Bring Deep-Space Madness to Gruesome Heights

With Danny Boyle's recent comments about his never-made 'Sunshine' trilogy, we're revisiting that 2007 film as well as a thematically similar 1997 cult classic.

‘Sunshine’ and ‘Event Horizon’ Bring Deep-Space Madness to Gruesome Heights

Millions of miles from Earth, a spaceship receives a distress call—so its crew changes course to investigate. Disaster follows. That’s famously the set-up for Alien, but it’s used often in sci-fi stories, including 1997’s Event Horizon and 2007’s Sunshine. Sunshine’s been in the news since director Danny Boyle revealed he’d originally hoped it would kick off a trilogy; that never happened, because like Event Horizon, it flopped at the box office…