The Adam Project
- by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).
In 2050, time jet pilot Adam Reed steals a jet and heads back to 2018 to save his stranded wife, but he gets waylaid in 2022 where his 12-year-old self is the only hope to save the mission.
—Michael Main
Young Adam: I mean if this is happening to me, that means that it already happened to you—right?—unless it works more like a multiverse where each ripple creates an alternate timeline—
Middle-Age Adam: It isn’t a multiverse! My god, we watch too many movies.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Branch-and-Return Timeline: Big Adam does not remember a childhood where he was visited by himself, which suggests that he has created a branching timeline. But he also says that when he returns to the future, he will merge with an Adam who does remember a childhood where he was visited. But who knows for sure? Overall, we take the story to have a narrative timeline.
- Delayed Change to a Timeline: The two Adams stick around for a while after preventing time travel from ever happening.
- Leaky Timelines
- Pruned Timeline: If they do manage to stop time travel from ever being invented, it seems like the timeline where it had been invented will disappear entirely.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Fliers: time jets
- Time Portal: The time jet opens a controllable time portal (referred to as a wormhole in the movie).
- Themes
- Chases through Time: Sorian chases Adam
- Free Will, Fate, and Determinism: Adam and Laura are fated to get back together even after all time travel is stopped.
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: Sorian
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Big Adam meets both his mother and his father.
- Never Change the Past!: Anything you say or do could cause a divergence!
- Retrocide: Sorian accidentally kills her younger self.
- Save “Lois”!: Big Adam’s main motivation is to save his wife, Laura.
- Self-Visitation: Adam and Sorian
- Stop All Time Travel!
- Stuck in Time: Laura
- Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!: Adam: I need to tell you something! Dad: I can’t know the future!
- Wisdom or Consolation to Your Younger Self
- Fictional Tags
- Dystopian World: The future that Sorian created.
Variants
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- The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).
- 超時空亞當計畫 [Supertime Adam project] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy.
- The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy, [no separate Filipino title].
- Adam à travers le temps [Adam through time] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy.
- The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy, [no separate German title].
- El proyecto Adam [The Adam project] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy.
Translations
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- The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).
- Chinese (subtitled).
超時空亞當計畫 [Supertime Adam project] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy. - Filipino (dubbed).
The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy, [no separate Filipino title]. - French (dubbed and subtitled).
Adam à travers le temps [Adam through time] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy. - German (dubbed and subtitled).
The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy, [no separate German title]. - Spanish (dubbed and subtitled).
El proyecto Adam [The Adam project] by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy.