Astronauts use a particle accelerator to try to solve Earth 's energy crisis in the film The Cloverfield Paradox .
The film stars Daniel Brühl , Elizabeth Debicki , Aksel Hennie , Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Chris O'Dowd , John Ortiz , David Oyelowo , and Zhang Ziyi , and follows an international group of astronauts aboard a space station who , after using a particle accelerator to try to solve Earth 's energy crisis , must find a way home after accidentally traveling to an alternate dimension .
The Cloverfield Paradox