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Sunshine (2007)

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The instrumental track is called "Requiem for a Tower," and it's by the Corner Stone Cues. It's available on music download sites such as iTunes and eMusic, in three movements (II to IV; there is no Movement I). It's an arrangement of Lux Aeterna from the soundtrack of Requiem for a Dream (2000).

Another trailer has a vocal track: this is "Avenue of Hope" by I Am Kloot. It is featured on the end credits and is expected to be on the soundtrack.

On a trailer shown in the UK the song "Another Love Song" by Six By Seven was also used.

A soundtrack album was definitely planned, but due to the complex rights/authorship situation (an Underworld score reworked and expanded by John Murphy) it has been canned. Fans have ripped and remastered the music from the DVD, but this is a less than perfect way of making a soundtrack album. In 2008, a "promo" for the soundtrack album (a pre-release version intended for journalists) surfaced and rapidly disseminated through the fan community. It contains several unused or expanded cues.

TRACK NAMES CONTAIN SPOILERS!

1) Capa's Jump+ 2) Sunshine 3) Mercury 4) Major Theme * 5) Kaneda's Death pt. 2 * 6) Mace Dies * 7) Capa Suits Up 8) Searle's Last Blast 9) Elegy * 10) Cassie Searches - Dead Corazon 11) Kaneda's Death pt. 1 12) Freezing Outside 13) Pinbacker Slashes Capa 14) Freezing Inside 15) Corazon Finds the Seedling 16) Floating Free 17) Scooter - Nightmare 18) Escaping the Icarus 2*

* - Unused track + - significantly extended

In order of appearance in the movie: 3, 17, 11, 2, 16, 12, 8, 13, 15, 10, 14, 7, 2, 1,

One of the haunting tracks from the film (used in the finale) is "To Heal" by Underworld, which made it into their latest album. The track is available on iTunes.

"Peggy Sussed (Underworld Riverrun Version)" by Underworld.

The flashing images were of the Icarus I crew members. While searching Icarus I, Searle comes across the photo of the crew members wearing Hawaiian shirts (similar to the photo of the Icarus II crew members, who were wearing Santa hats).

The similar photos of the two crews hint that what caused the Icarus I from accomplishing its mission is what is happening to the crew of the Icarus II.

Pinbacker was the captain of the Icarus I; and the one who had stopped the first team from delivering its payload. He says that God spoke to him and told him to take "us" (meaning all of humanity) to heaven. So it was Pinbacker who had sabotaged the mission. He also tries to sabotage the mission of the Icarus II, but fails.

The reason Pinbacker was able to survive for so long was that the ecosystem on board was still flourishing. He had plenty of oxygen and vegetation, enough to keep him alive. He was also the only person alive on board the Icarus I, meaning he wouldn't have to share it with anyone else.

There are two possible answers to this questions. 1: He was murdered by Pinbacker. 2: He killed himself.

According to Danny Boyle's audio commentary on the DVD, both he and Alex Garland felt that Pinbacker killed Trey shortly after transferring over to Icarus II, and made it look like a suicide so as not to reveal his presence just yet. This is why Mace sees two knives missing from the drawer - the one used by Pinbacker to murder Trey, and the one he would subsequently use to murder Corazon.

However, Benedict Wong and science consultant Brian Cox both argue that Trey killed himself. Cox, in his own DVD commentary, argues that Pinbacker wasn't thinking clearly enough to make his murder of Trey look like a suicide, whilst Wong simply feels that the character snapped upon hearing of the deaths of Harvey and Searle.

In the DVD's featurettes and science commentary, respectively, Cliff Curtis and science consultant Brian Cox opine that Searle exposes himself to the sun in order to understand what had happened to the Icarus I crew. He wants to go through the same experience they had. According to Curtis, Searle becomes fascinated with the sun and comes to see the face of God in it. In the end, he believes the sun is trying to communicate something to him.