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The Adam Project is a 2022 American science fiction action comedy-drama film co-produced by Skydance Media, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment. It was directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay written by Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett, and Mark Levin. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, and Zoe Saldaña. The plot follows a pilot (Reynolds) from the future, who goes back in time and encounters his younger self (Scobell).

The Adam Project
Official promotional poster
Directed byShawn Levy
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTobias Schliessler
Edited by
  • Dean Zimmerman
  • Jonathan Corn
Music byRob Simonsen
Production
companies
  • Skydance Media
  • Maximum Effort
  • 21 Laps Entertainment
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • March 9, 2022 (2022-03-09)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$116 million[1]

Production on the film first began in 2012 with Tom Cruise attached to star. The film then fell into development hell until Netflix acquired the distribution rights. Filming commenced in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2021. The Adam Project began a limited "one night only" theatrical release on March 9, 2022 followed by its digital release on Netflix on March 11. The film received mixed reviews.


Plot


In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals a time jet to escape to 2018 to save his wife, Laura Shane. In the process, he gets injured and crash-lands in 2022. The story then shifts to 12-year-old Adam in 2022, whose father Louis died a year previously. He is bullied at school, gets suspended for fighting in school, and is distant from his mother Ellie. When he is home alone one night, he finds the injured future Adam. The younger Adam refuses to trust the stranger, but future Adam inadvertently mentions the names of both the younger Adam and his dog, Hawking. The younger Adam soon realizes that the stranger in front of him is his future self.

Due to a safety feature preventing him from flying because of his injuries, Adam must bring along the younger Adam and use his DNA to enter his jet. They both are soon attacked by Maya Sorian, the leader of the dystopian world, and her assistant Christos, but are saved by Laura, who had faked her death and stayed off-grid in an unknown location. After surviving the attack and comparing notes, Laura and the Adams realize that after the invention of time travel by Louis Reed and his subsequent death, Sorian had monopolized the discovery. During her visit to 2018, Laura learned Sorian frequently came and advised her past self in order to secure her future wealth and power. To protect her secret, Sorian ordered Laura's death. Although Laura survived the assassination attempt, destruction of her time jet left her stranded in the past. The sudden arrival of Sorian's goons interrupts the reunion, and Laura fights off the attack long enough for the two Adams to escape to 2018.

In 2018, the Adams meet Louis Reed in an attempt to enlist his help, but their father refuses any assistance out of concern for the effect on the time stream. That night, Sorian meets and warns her past self about Adam. Meanwhile, the Adams share their common feelings about their father in a motel. The next day, they both set off to destroy the time travel machine. On arrival at Sorian Technologies, they are attacked by Sorian's soldiers, but are unexpectedly saved by Louis, who has changed his mind and agrees to guide them. Louis reveals that destroying the machine will not destroy time travel as long as Sorian has his algorithm with all the math and constraints to control the process. Meanwhile, 2050 Sorian captures the younger Adam.

Although Louis and 2050 Adam remove a memory unit with the algorithm, both Sorians arrive and threaten 2022 Adam as leverage to coerce Louis into surrendering the algorithm. 2022 Adam escapes from Sorian by pushing her gun away, however, an errant bullet damages the seal restraining the electromagnetic field, causing it to grow to limitless values. The Reeds try as much as they can to stop them, but the older Sorian threatens to kill Louis. Adam warns that her bullets are armor-piercing, but Louis remains adamant. Seeing no other way, Sorian shoots at Louis, but the path of the bullet is altered by the electromagnetic field and hits 2018 Sorian instead, killing her and wiping the older Sorian out of existence.

The Reeds barely manage to escape the facility's implosion and reach home, where they reconcile by playing a game of catch before the Adams return to their respective times. In 2022, the younger Adam lives in a new timeline where he never got suspended, has let go of his anger, and gives his mother a hug via an "echo". Sometime in the future, an older and much happier Adam meets Laura during a flight training lecture where she realizes she has entered the wrong building on the campus. After Adam offers to walk her to her building, stating that he has got time, they depart together.


Cast



Production


Director and producer Shawn Levy
Director and producer Shawn Levy

The project, a spec script written by T.S. Nowlin, was initially announced as Our Name Is Adam in October 2012. Paramount Pictures became interested in acquiring the film, and Tom Cruise was attached to star.[2][3]

The film was revived in July 2020 when it moved to Netflix, with Shawn Levy as director and Ryan Reynolds set to star after previously collaborating on Free Guy (2021), while the latest draft of the script was written by Jonathan Tropper, from previous drafts by Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin.[4] In November, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, Alex Mallari Jr. and Walker Scobell were added to the cast.[5][6]

Filming commenced in November 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[6] Filming officially wrapped in March 2021.[7]

Rob Simonsen composed the score.[8] A track from the film titled "The Adam Project" was released as a single on March 3, 2022.[9]


Release


The film began a limited theatrical release only on March 9, 2022 at 7:00PM Eastern Standard Time followed by its release on Netflix on March 11.[10][11]It totaled 3 million viewers over its debut weekend.[12]


Reception



Reviews


On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 208 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's consensus reads, "You've seen Ryan Reynolds do this sort of thing before, but The Adam Project offers slickly entertaining – and occasionally even moving – sci-fi action."[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[14]

Ryan Leston of IGN gave it 9 out of 10 and called it a mash-up of Back to the Future and The Last Starfighter. He praised Reynolds for his performance and Scobell for his debut performance.[15] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "The movie is a total trifle, but it’s often a diverting one — a wide-eyed sci-fi adventure with a screwball buoyancy."[16]


Viewership


According to Samba TV, 3 million US households watched The Adam Project in its first weekend streaming on Netflix. Samba TV also showed that 384,000 households watched the film within the first 3-days of that period.[17]


References


  1. Mendelson, Scott (March 15, 2022). "Ryan Reynolds' Adam Project Represents The Conundrum Of Netflix Blockbusters". Forbes. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  2. Sneider, Jeff (October 17, 2012). "Tom Cruise circling Mary Parent sci-fi project". Variety. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  3. Fleming, Mike Jr. (October 17, 2012). "Paramount In Talks For Tom Cruise Pic 'Our Name Is Adam,' But Studio Punts Ivan Reitman/Kevin Costner's 'Draft Day'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 29, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  4. D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 23, 2020). "Ryan Reynolds-Shawn Levy Time Travel Project Shifts From Paramount To Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  5. Kroll, Justin (November 17, 2020). "Jennifer Garner And Zoe Saldana Joins Ryan Reynolds in 'The Adam Project' For Netflix And Skydance". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  6. Kit, Borys (November 23, 2020). "Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener Join Ryan Reynolds in 'The Adam Project' for Skydance, Netflix (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 23, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  7. "Ryan Reynolds Shares The Adam Project Photos of Gamora, Elektra, The Hulk, and Deadpool Stars". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
  8. "Rob Simonsen Scoring Shawn Levy's The Adam Project". filmmusicreporter.com. January 11, 2021. Archived from the original on March 20, 2022. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  9. Anderton, Ethan (March 3, 2022). "Listen To The Emotional Title Track From The Adam Project Score By Composer Rob Simonsen [Exclusive]". /Film. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  10. "Adam Project, The". Landmark Cinemas. February 23, 2022. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  11. "The Adam Project". TIFF.net. March 4, 2022. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  12. D'Alessandro, Anthony (March 24, 2022). "Oscar's Halo Effect On Best Picture Nominees Dims — Not Just At Box Office But On Streaming: A Scorecard". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  13. "The Adam Project". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  14. "The Adam Project". Metacritic. Red Ventures. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  15. Leston, Ryan (March 10, 2022). "The Adam Project Review". IGN. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  16. Gleiberman, Owen (March 10, 2022). "'The Adam Project' Review: Ryan Reynolds Meets His 12-Year-Old Self in Shawn Levy's Back-to-the-Future Action Confection". Variety. Archived from the original on May 7, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  17. "The Adam Project: Ryan Reynolds-led film registers third-best debut week for a Netflix movie". JoBlo. March 16, 2022. Archived from the original on July 8, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.



На других языках

- [en] The Adam Project

[es] El proyecto Adam

The Adam Project (El proyecto Adam en español) es una película de ciencia ficción estadounidense dirigida por Shawn Levy y escrita por Jonathan Tropper, TS Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett y Mark Levin. Está protagonizada por Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener y Walker Scobell.[1] La película se estrenó en Netflix en marzo de 2022.[2]

[ru] Проект «Адам»

«Проект „Адам“» (англ. The Adam Project) — американский комедийный научно-фантастический боевик режиссёра Шона Леви и сценаристов Джонатана Троппера, Т. С. Наулина, Дженнифер Флэкетт и Марка Левина. В главных ролях: Райан Рейнольдс (также продюсер), Марк Руффало, Дженнифер Гарнер, Уолкер Скобелл, Кэтрин Кинер и Зои Салдана. Сюжет рассказывает о пилоте, который отправляется в Прошлое, где встречает более юную версию себя.


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