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The shoot out scene with hit girl plays a remix of the song "Surface of the Sun" from the movie Sunshine

Referenced during the "Fierce People" review.

Reviewed

Seen on marquee in Times Square

The video borrows its imagery and concept from the film.

Film mentioned during Danny Boyle interview

Spaceship captain (Mark Strong's Pinbacker in Sunshine, Walter Brooke's Gen. Merritt in Conquest) going insane and sabotaging his own mission citing muddled religious reasons.

Riding the bomb to it's target references Slim Pickens' famous Dr Strangelove scene.

Both the scene where Mace, Capa and Harvey jet from airlock to airlock is almost identical to the scene in 2001 where Dave does the same thing, and the part where Icarus 2s voice starts to deepen and slow when the cores are pulled out is very reminiscent of HAL singing "A Bicycle Made for Two" as Dave turns him off.

A spaceship carrying Earth flora and ecosystems.

Character name (Pinback/Pinbacker). Also set on a spaceship carrying out a bomb mission.