The movie would have you believe that in just 80 years from now we have corporations sending-out huge FTL ships bearing people who have been in hypersleep while traveling 500,000 light years in two years time.Is the 500,000 figure from the movie? Our galaxy is 100,000 lys across. Perhaps a nearby dwarf galaxy ? Was this covered in the movie ? ( That's a joke. )
Well, according to
blastr, they were stated to be 300 trillion kilometers from earth, or about 31.7 lightyears. Then
swiftfilm quotes Neil Degrasse Tyson ( a tweet I guess ) saying that Charlize Theron says they are "half a billion miles" from earth ... which is more like a light-hour, of course. I would guess that the 500,000 lys s/b 500,000,000 miles, and is based on this quote.