Isn't this a ripoff of Pandorum?

Um.... not really. It's about 3% "identical" in that a civilization headed towards a habitable world are in hypersleep. In fact (spoilers ahead) even that isn't identical because in Pandorum there is always a crew awake on the ship, they already reached their destination, and the movie is about what happened whilst they slept, not what they're going to do with their lonely futures. Also, the characters are never alone, there's a whole bunch of people (and evolved people)running riot all over the ship.

What if a squirrel wants a sausage?

Came here to see the same thing.

Pandorum is a great movie; would've loved to see the planned sequels. 😒

"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill

Pandorum was released in 2009, while the draft of Passengers was written in 2007 and made the blacklist top un-produced scripts of that same year, that information is available online as you probably know as well as the script itself. So the answer is no.

Also, there is a significant difference between the two stories anyways.

There's not a moment of loving peace in Pandorum since from the moment you start the movie there's suspense and dread every step of the way. Also, the setting of Pandorum is more like Aliens or Event Horizon where everything is gritty, like inside an old car.

--I always thought air was free until I bought a bag of chips--

Vox blased it as Titanic is space.

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

If they cut out the love story it would probably be a better movie. But who knows I could be wrong.

Space Ark stories have been around since the Golden Age of Scifi. They are simply getting increasingly greenlit at the moment because space scifi is back in vogue (and SFX have improved to accommodate their growth).

I cant get enough of them but ultimately they are tantalisingly disappointing by the end, no matter how good the movie is - they cant really satisfy that desire to behold the surface of another planet.

That said, shots of exo-planets like Avatars,or just the simple wasteland shots of cheapo B scifi, or simply Pandorum's (SPOILERS) final minimal shot, are all achingly beautiful. I cant wait to see more.

You actually think the basic concept comes from Pandorum? This concept is at least 80 years old.