Jack and Julia return to the crash site and recover Odyssey 's flight recorder, but are captured by scavengers and taken to Raven Rock Mountain Complex. He and Vika revive the woman and learn her name is Julia, realizing she was in stasis aboard her ship Odyssey since before the war. Drones kill the hibernating humans, but Jack protects the woman and brings her to his base. An unknown object crash-lands at the transmitted coordinates in the wreckage, Jack finds five humans in stasis chambers, including the woman from his dreams. After disabling the transmitter, he visits his secret cabin filled with mementos from Earth's past. After a hydrorig is destroyed, he discovers the scavengers are using the Empire State Building's antenna to transmit coordinates to outer space. Although their memories have been wiped, Jack has recurring dreams of a life before the war with an unknown woman.Įxploring the ruins of the New York Public Library, Jack narrowly escapes a scavenger ambush. Led by mission director Sally from aboard the " Tet" space station orbiting Earth, they will soon leave for humanity's new home on Titan. With Vika as his communications officer, Jack serves as "Tech 49", repairing the combat drones that hunt the remaining scavengers and guard the "hydrorig" generators converting seawater into fusion energy. Sixty years earlier, a race of alien scavengers destroyed the Moon and invaded Earth humanity won the war, but nuclear weapons and the loss of the Moon left most of the planet uninhabitable. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $286 million worldwide, on a production budget of $120 million.īy March 14, 2077, Jack Harper and Victoria "Vika" Olsen are among the few humans left on Earth. Oblivion was released in IMAX by Universal Pictures on Ap and held its world premiere in Buenos Aires on March 26, 2013. After witnessing a spacecraft crash, from which he rescues a survivor, Harper is captured by scavengers (who are revealed to be humans) and fights against a new and evolving alien threat. The film follows the story of Jack Harper, a technician who has been sent back to Earth to service drones used in the fight against remaining extraterrestrials (scavengers). Oblivion takes place in 2077, on an Earth devastated by war with extraterrestrials that has caused humanity to relocate itself to Titan. Oblivion, based on Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name, pays homage to 1970s science fiction films.
Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action-adventure film co-produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski, and produced by Peter Chernin with screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in supporting roles.