the island

 

Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Bay
Screenplay by	Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Story by	Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Produced by	Michael Bay Ian Bryce Walter Parkes
Starring	Ewan McGregor Scarlett Johansson Djimon Hounsou Sean Bean Michael Clarke Duncan Steve Buscemi
Cinematography	Mauro Fiore
Edited by	Paul Rubell Christian Wagner Roger Barton John Murray (editor)
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Production companies	DreamWorks Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures Parkes/MacDonald Productions[1]
Distributed by	DreamWorks Pictures (North America) Warner Bros. Pictures (International)[1]
Release date	July 22, 2005
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 thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay. 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.