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Plenty of films have dealt with the possibility of another habitable planet in the universe, as well as the existential need for such a place given how humans have not treated the Earth well over the course of history. While some films go the philosophical route or explore the dangers of space travel, the makers of the new film
Voyagers figured they would be different and just make it about horny and angry teenagers.
In the world of the film, humanity has come up with a plan to send a group of people to a newly discovered Earth-like planet after Earth has grown too hot and filled with drought and disease to sustain life. But because it will take 86 years to reach said planet, the group is made up almost entirely of young people, born and raised in isolation, whose children and grandchildren will be the ones to actually set foot on the new world.