The momentum is snowballing as the awards season approaches, with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney’s leading performances both touted as possible contenders in the months to come.
With a space-set sci-fi drama/thriller like this, the effects are of course key to building the tension here, and it wouldn’t be a surprise at all to see the nominations roll in in the technical categories come January. And with that in mind, Warner Bros. has released a new featurette, via AMC, taking a look at the experience of the third dimension in Cuarón’s anticipated blockbuster.
Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (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.
Cuarón (Children of Men) is directing from a script he co-wrote with his son, Jonás Cuarón (Year of the Nail).
Gravity will be released in 3D and IMAX 3D on October 4th in the US, with its UK release date set for 8th November, following two screenings next month at the BFI London Film Festival.
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