The Adam Project Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning: Spoilers for The Adam Project ahead.
Netflix's The Adam Project deals with time travel and villains and its ending grapples with multiple themes, meaning, and sets up a potential sequel. Starring Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time-traveling pilot on a very specific mission, The Adam Project is a sci-fi yarn with a lot of heart, reminiscent of the Amblin movies of the 80s. Reynolds reteams with his Free Guy director Shawn Levy for the movie, which also stars Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed, Jennifer Garner as Ellie Reed, Zoe Saldana as Laura, Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian, and Walker Scobell as young Adam.
Reynolds' Adam (Big Adam) is a pilot from the year 2050 who steals a ship and attempts to travel back to 2018 but ends up in 2022. Injured and needing the assistance of his younger self (Young Adam) to help restart his damaged ship as it's coded to his DNA and won't reset when Big Adam is wounded, Big Adam is on a mission to find his wife, Laura (Saldana), also a pilot, who mysteriously disappeared on a mission to 2018. That explanation of her death doesn't sit well with Big Adam, prompting the ship theft and subsequent inadvertent arrival in 2022, where he finds that Laura is alive and has been stranded since 2018. Things get worse when the villain Maya Sorian, comes looking for Adam. Though she claims to have discovered time travel, it was really Adam's father, Louis, who did. But Sorian has been using it to travel back to make her younger self (thereby her older self) rich and powerful, and she intends to stop Adam from revealing her duplicity.
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Once reunited, Big Adam, Young Adam, and Laura deduce Sorian's time travel deeds and
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