Gallery: Passengers' Elegant Starship Is Almost as Pretty as Its Stars
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In *Passengers*, the *Avalon* is like another main character.
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Early sketches of the *Avalon*.
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Its designer, Guy Hendrix Dyas, was inspired by the shape of sycamore tree pods.
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The spaceship is comprised of three separate hulls that are connected by a main spine.
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Most of the move was shot on physical sets instead of green screens.
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The set was nearly 300 feet long to account for the different scenes.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in the art deco themed bar.
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The bar includes tiles imprinted with the design of the *Avalon*.
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Dyas says he designed the bar to look like what someone in the future might consider art deco.
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The bar.
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The observatory room.
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At the center of the observatory is a massive zen garden.
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Dyas says the goal was to pull in different aesthetics from around the world.
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Dyas imaged the ship would be designed over the course of decades. The central corridor, among the first spaces built, most closely resembles our contemporary ideas of "futuristic."
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The swooping architecture of the ship's mall. Dyas designed the spacecraft to resemble a cruise liner.
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A space near the hibernation pods.
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Much of the *Avalon* draws on the forms of contemporary architects like Zaha Hadid.
