‘The Adam Project’ Director Breaks Down That Tearjerker Ending

Warning: Spoilers for “The Adam Project” follow below.Most time-travel movies don’t end in tears, but “The Adam Project” may necessitate an entire box of Kleenex for some viewers.The Netflix original film finds a fighter pilot from the year 2050, Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds), crash-landing in the year 2022 after traveling through time. There, Adam teams up with his younger self (played by newcomer Walker Scobell) to try and stop time travel from ever being invented, thus fixing the future.In the year 2022, young Adam is reeling from the recent death of his father, Louis (Mark Ruffalo) – who just so happens to have invented time travel shortly before he died in a car accident. Adult Adam, too, is clearly still scarred by his father’s abrupt death, made all the more painful by the fact that his father was always preoccupied with his work when he was still alive.In...