Before They Won Oscars, Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh Starred in This Sci-Fi Thriller - CNET
Cillian Murphy plays a physicist named Robert who’s in charge of a world-altering bomb. No, we’re not talking about Oppenheimer. Robert Capa is a fictional (but also psychologically tortured) scientist in Sunshine, a 2007 sci-fi thriller streaming now on Prime Video.
Set in 2057, Sunshine follows the eight-person crew of the spaceship Icarus II, the last hope for saving life on Earth. These scientists aren’t stereotypically cold and calculating. They’re smart human beings, but still subject to their emotions.
They’re also played by some big-name actors. In addition to Cillian Murphy starring as Capa, Marvel’s Captain America, Chris Evans, plays the hot-headed engineer Mace. Malaysian superstar and Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is the ship’s biologist, Corazon.
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