| The Island | |
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| Directed by | Michael Bay |
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| Story by | Caspian Tredwell-Owen |
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| Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
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| Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
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| Distributed by | DreamWorks Distribution LLC (North America) Warner Bros. Pictures (International)[1] |
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Running time | 136 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $126 million[3] |
| Box office | $162.9 million[3] |
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi. The film is about Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor), who struggles to fit into the highly structured world in which he lives, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world is. After Lincoln learns the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogates for wealthy people in the outside world, he attempts to escape with Jordan Two Delta (Johansson) and expose the illegal cloning movement.
The Island has been described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run. The Island cost $126 million to produce. The original score was composed by Steve Jablonsky, who went on to score Bay's further works. It opened on July 22, 2005, by DreamWorks Pictures in North America and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures, to mixed reviews, earning $36 million at the United States box office and $127 million overseas for a $162 million worldwide total.
- ^ a b c "The Island (2005)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ^ "THE ISLAND (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 22, 2005. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
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