New Image From Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Featuring Sandra Bullock
Warner Bros. has released a new image from Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming sci-fi film Gravity featuring Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone. The film centers on an astronaut who attempts to make her way back to Earth after a satellite crash sets off a chain reaction of further crashes. Cuaron remarked to USA Today that it took five years to perfect this type of zero-gravity environment for filming. “We wanted to shoot the whole film showing zero gravity with the actors moving in a choreographic way,” says Cuarón. “This has never been done before. It was a journey of learning. But it looks pretty darn good.”
The acclaimed director also went on to talk about how Earth became another character in the film: “When you see this Earth from outer space with all of its beauty and colors, you don’t see all of these separations between these countries. Earth is just one organic, beautiful thing. We happen to live in a very stunning and beautiful place.” The filmmakers had the daunting task of accurately depicting known celestial bodies in the galaxy and using computers to “map and shoot millions of stars and the Earth in various states.”
Gravity has been my most anticipated film for the past two years and I’m hoping it’ll make its way to TIFF in September. The film hits theaters October 4.
Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
This glorious lo-res image is courtesy of USA Today.