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The instrumental track is called "Requiem for a Tower," and it's by the Corner Stone Cues. It's available on music download sites such as iTunes and eMusic, in three movements (II to IV; there is no Movement I). It's an arrangement of Lux Aeterna from the soundtrack of Requiem for a Dream (2000).

Another trailer has a vocal track: this is "Avenue of Hope" by I Am Kloot. It is featured on the end credits and is expected to be on the soundtrack.

On a trailer shown in the UK the song "Another Love Song" by Six By Seven was also used.

It has arrived! An album was talked about soon after the movie's release, but due various undisclosed legal problems it was tied up and had been assumed doomed. Fans ripped and remastered the music from the DVD, but this is a less than perfect way of making a soundtrack album. In 2008, a "promo" for the soundtrack album (a pre-release version intended for journalists) surfaced and rapidly disseminated through the fan community. It contains several unused or expanded cues.

TRACK NAMES CONTAIN SPOILERS!

1) Capa's Jump+ 2) Sunshine 3) Mercury 4) Major Theme * 5) Kaneda's Death pt. 2 * 6) Mace Dies * 7) Capa Suits Up 8) Searle's Last Blast 9) Elegy * 10) Cassie Searches - Dead Corazon 11) Kaneda's Death pt. 1 12) Freezing Outside 13) Pinbacker Slashes Capa 14) Freezing Inside 15) Corazon Finds the Seedling 16) Floating Free 17) Scooter - Nightmare 18) Escaping the Icarus 2*

* - Unused track + - significantly extended

In order of appearance in the movie: 3, 17, 11, 2, 16, 12, 8, 13, 15, 10, 14, 7, 2, 1,

"To Heal", from the finale, made it onto one of Underworld's albums that year.

Near the end of 2008, following reassurances from Underworld and John Murphy that the album was still on the way, the official soundtrack "Sunshine: Music from the Motion Picture" was released on the USA, UK, CA, NL, BE, DE, and AU iTunes stores. A retail release, or releases on other regions' iTunes stores, have yet to be announced. Its track listing is:

1) John Murphy: Welcome to Icarus II * 2) I Am Kloot: Avenue of Hope *% 3) Underworld: Capas Last Transmission Home * 4) John Murphy: Kanadas Death, Pt. 2 (Adagio In D Minor) 5) Underworld & John Murphy: Mercury 6) John Murphy: Kanadas Death, Pt. 1 7) Underworld & John Murphy: Searle Finds the Crew of Icarus I * / Floating Free / Searles Last Blast 8) John Murphy & Underworld: Freezing Outside: Harvey 9) Underworld: Trey's Fate * 10) John Murphy & Underworld: Pinbacker Slashes Capa 11) Underworld: Corazon Finds the Seedling 12) John Murphy & Underworld: Cassie Searches / Dead Corazón 13) John Murphy: Freezing Inside: Mace 14) John Murphy: Capa Suits Up 15) John Murphy: Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) 16) John Murphy: Capas Jump 17) Underworld: Distortions * 18) Underworld: Capa Meets the Sun (To Heal) *% 19) Underworld: Peggy Sussed *%

*: were not present in the promo. %: were previously released on other albums.

The "unused tracks" from the promo have all been omitted. The new album puts the tracks in a sequence much closer to the order the appear in the movie:

1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2

"Peggy Sussed (Underworld Riverrun Version)" by Underworld.

The flashing images were of the Icarus I crew members. While searching Icarus I, Searle comes across the photo of the crew members wearing Hawaiian shirts (similar to the photo of the Icarus II crew members, who were wearing Santa hats).

The similar photos of the two crews hint that what caused the Icarus I from accomplishing its mission is what is happening to the crew of the Icarus II.

Pinbacker was the captain of the Icarus I; and the one who had stopped the first team from delivering its payload. He says that God spoke to him and told him to take "us" (meaning all of humanity) to heaven. So it was Pinbacker who had sabotaged the mission. He also tries to sabotage the mission of the Icarus II, but fails.

The reason Pinbacker was able to survive for so long was that the ecosystem on board was still flourishing. He had plenty of oxygen and vegetation, enough to keep him alive. He was also the only person alive on board the Icarus I, meaning he wouldn't have to share it with anyone else.

He was however in direct sunlight which should have burned him the same way it did Searle. Pinbacker claims that God kept him alive.

There are two possible answers to this questions. 1: He was murdered by Pinbacker. 2: He killed himself.

According to Danny Boyle's audio commentary on the DVD, both he and Alex Garland felt that Pinbacker killed Trey shortly after transferring over to Icarus II, and made it look like a suicide so as not to reveal his presence just yet. This is why Mace sees two knives missing from the drawer - the one used by Pinbacker to murder Trey, and the one he would subsequently use to murder Corazon.

However, Benedict Wong and science consultant Brian Cox both argue that Trey killed himself. Cox, in his own DVD commentary, argues that Pinbacker wasn't thinking clearly enough to make his murder of Trey look like a suicide, whilst Wong simply feels that the character snapped upon hearing of the deaths of Harvey and Searle.

In the DVD's featurettes and science commentary, respectively, Cliff Curtis and science consultant Brian Cox opine that Searle exposes himself to the sun in order to understand what had happened to the Icarus I crew. He wants to go through the same experience they had. According to Curtis, Searle becomes fascinated with the sun and comes to see the face of God in it. In the end, he believes the sun is trying to communicate something to him. Moreover, if you remember earlier, he was watching one of the last video messages sent from Icarus I, one of the crew was speaking about how beautiful it was to face the Sun.

Sunshine: Music from the Motion Picture (iTunes-release) 2008

1. Welcome to Icarus II (John Murphy) 1:59

2. Avenue of Hope (I Am Kloot) 4:34

3. Capa's Last Transmission Home (Underworld) 2:11

4. Kanada's Death, Pt. 2 / Adagio In D Minor (John Murphy) 2:58

5. Mercury (Underworld & John Murphy) 2:10

6. Kanada's Death, Pt. 1 (John Murphy) 6:06

7. Searle Finds the Crew of Icarus I / Floating Free / Searle's Last Blast (Underworld & John Murphy) 3:11

8. Freezing Outside: Harvey (John Murphy) 2:54

9. Trey's Fate (John Murphy) 2:42

10. Pinbacker Slashes Capa (John Murphy & Underworld) 2:32

11. Corazon Finds the Seedling (Underworld) 1:20

12. Cassie Searches / Dead Corazón (John Murphy & Underworld) 2:41

13. Freezing Inside: Mace (John Murphy) 1:51

14. Capa Suits Up (John Murphy) 1:54

15. Sunshine: Adagio In D Minor (John Murphy) 4:27

16. Capa's Jump (John Murphy) 1:20

17. Distortions (Underworld) 5:40

18. Capa Meets the Sun / To Heal (Underworld) 2:18

19. Peggy Sussed (Underworld) 2:27