Interesting, I don't know about that movie, but decades ago I read a rather famous short Sci-Fi story by Robert Silverberg called "Passengers", about humans being "ridden" by aliens. Don't know if they're related, could just be coincidence of name.
"Passengers" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(short_story)
This movie “Passengers” (from 2016) starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence (I know, a Lefty dingbat).
The story is about what takes place on the “Avalon”, a starship over 6/10ths of a mile long and traveling at half the speed of light, bringing 5000+ passengers and crew in suspended animation to Homestead II, a new planet 130 years away from Earth, and it has one of the best Sci-Fi opening scenes in any I have seen. Every time I see it, I think “Damn. That is a great portrayal...”
Very well done.
A love story in a sci-fi setting with serious moral issues to consider. It is hard to watch and not think: “Damn. What would I do?”
And...even though Lawrence is a Moonbat, she is quite pleasant visually in this role where she plays a Journalist planning to be the first journalist to travel to the future (relatively speaking) and then come back again to tell her story.
Chris Pratt’s character is a technical person who supports and builds infrastructure, and comes off as a conservative to me.