_Gravity_, the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick

As opposed to his old one:

Robert Downey Jr. is negotiating a deal to star in Gravity, the 3D space film directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures will co-finance.

Cuaron wrote the script with his son, Jonas.

Downey will play the leader of a team posted at a remote space station. While he and a female colleague are traveling outside the space station, the other team members are decimated by debris from an exploded satellite.

The script had been developed originally at Universal with the intention of having Angelina Jolie play the female role. Much of the film is devoted to her struggle to get back to Earth and her daughter. Jolie passed around the time Universal cut it loose. Downey was drawn to the chance to work wtih Cuaron, the director of Children of Men and Y tu mama tambien.

I can actually see this working out really well in 3D

this is happening

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/alfonso-cuarons-gravity-is-filming-this.html#more

premise doesn't sound very interesting, but i'm a big fan of both cuarón and downey (and sci-fi anything, and 3D anything), so...

Will watch for sure.

:D

love that this dude is keeping on with the sci-fi

http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/angelina-jolie-pass-puts-gravity-in-shaky-orbit-for-warner-bros/#more-64414

ah ffs

The studio needs an actress who can hold the screen and draw an audience to an $80 million film.

and jolie is the ONLY BROAD in all hollywood who can do this? kind of depressing

Any more info on this?

this is the last thing i saw - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/george_clooney_will_orbit_sand.html

This is, in fact, happening.

A little something:

“Instead of trying to create real people and what they’re doing, let’s turn it around and create almost an entirely animated film and then backwards engineer the people into that film,” he explained. “As a matter of fact, let’s not even engineer the people into the film, let’s engineer their faces. So you’ve got these little faces inside these little helmets. But there was a big hiccup that we came to I didn’t realize until later, which was that we began building it as an animated film and Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.’ So it ends up the film only has 156 shots in the entire two-hour movie, many of them six, eight, 10 minutes long."

And yes, trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIzxwIJVdus

what a shitty trailer

yeah, terrible

lol so basically nothing is done yet

that is not a real trailer

horrible trailer, wont see the movie

Trailer's in blurry 3-D, right? Nice teaser before Titans et al.

ha. i am very much looking forward to this. is the reason he hasn't made a feature since 2008 b/c he was trying to get this funded?

Cuaron should have taken trailer lessons from whomever cut "Prometheus."

Sandra Bullock? Oh, fuck.

horrible trailer, wont see the movie

― max

what a tragedy for trailers everywhere

i think it's funny that he's the visionary director of children of men and..... one of 27 interchangeable harry potter movies (i know I know, his is a little different, still)

from the visionary director of great expectations

from the visionary director of that subtitled movie that you rented because you heard there was a threesome in it

We need a trailer in twenty minutes! Here's some stock footage of the Space Shuttle.

Horrible trailer, will definitely see the movie anyway.

will prob never watch a trailer again tbh

i actually blinded myself after seeing that trailer

yet by muscle memory, can still post to ilx

rip trailers

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/therealtsumi88/temp/MrT-SingleTear.gif

This is, in fact, happening.

A little something:

“Instead of trying to create real people and what they’re doing, let’s turn it around and create almost an entirely animated film and then backwards engineer the people into that film,” he explained. “As a matter of fact, let’s not even engineer the people into the film, let’s engineer their faces. So you’ve got these little faces inside these little helmets. But there was a big hiccup that we came to I didn’t realize until later, which was that we began building it as an animated film and Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.’ So it ends up the film only has 156 shots in the entire two-hour movie, many of them six, eight, 10 minutes long."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i read a script review of it a couple years ago where the reviewer guessed that the movie was intended to be shot in one take. it's not said explicitly in the script but it all takes place in real time and seems plausible for cuaron

huh. I want to be excited about this.

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Finally Has Its Release Date
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, which we've been dreaming about since maybe before 2006's Children of Men, is now set for Oct. 4, 2013. Originally slated for November 2012, it stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts stranded in space. It's also reported to have an uninterrupted twenty-minute opening scene and as much digital work as Avatar.
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sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0

fuck you

i was just coming here to post that

http://i.imgur.com/J8K3L.jpg

SANDRA BULLOCK SPINNING AND GRABBING AT AIR THE MOVIE

sandarooni

spiegel im spiegel: got something in my eye. earth from space: gonna need a tissue here. loss of loved one: oh shit gimme the whole box.

that looks nuts

Anyway NERDS

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/a-quick-look-at-the-physics-in-the-gravity-trailer/

no mention of the SOUND IN SPACE?!?!

http://i.imgur.com/3FyDnY7.png

looks like... this 'science fiction' movie is more 'fiction' than 'science.' https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/userArmsCrossed.gif

sound in space bugged me a little tbh, but it'll probably work in the movie

That battle has been lost, moviewise. Bigger louder grosser.

quite relish the chutzpah of showing a film called 'gravity' on an aeroplane

oh bugger, rogermexico already claimed that one

if you only appreciate dialogue (lol) and characterization and charismatic acting why would you watch this?

"only"? they're pretty much all a film needs. anyway i hadn't really studied up on this film before trying it.

the dead child thing was ludicrously corny. and lowest common denominator attempt at ~resonance except none of it rang true - the ponderous way in which it was discussed, the idea they'd be discussing it at all at that point, the lack of any detail that would have made me care about the dead child. or are we meant to cry about it just because it's a dead child. and the entire scenario of magical wise clooney and his manly calm (clichéd smarm) saving a female astronaut from going into hysterics, please. presumably that character is extremely capable and adept but of course what she needs to survive is a man to calm her down. not that bullock could portray anyone capable or adept ever.

the hunger games, like the first part, was just a very enjoyable film with characters i gave a shit about and pertinent themes. and it actually had the less strained dialogue! watched all the way through and never once felt bored.

i mean this reminded me of when i saw prometheus (in a 3D cinema!) and was like, yeah it looks stunning but it's a DREADFUL film. this was even worse b/c it was prometheus with the self-serious stuff ramped way up. prometheus x tree of life. these awful heavy-handed vaguely metaphysical films that make out as if they're tackling important, big themes but are just banal and boring

i saw 2001 so long ago and can't remember much about it apart from NOTHING HAPPENING, and NOTHING KEPT HAPPENING for what felt like five days. the people around me were getting stoned and i was trying to be polite and i had to call on all my boredom-survival methods built over a childhood of attending church services to get through it

don't watch any more movies by ppl whose surname ends in 'ick'

unless you know "ick" is gonna be your response

I mean.. then you could watch a tv-show or read a book? Cinema is not just stories. The entire scenario of her just being some techie engineer and him being cool astronaut seems pretty plausible imo and wasn't that annoying to me because he doesn't really succeed in calming her down until he DIES. I'm overwhelmed by a movie like Gravity even though the story (about Stone and dead child) isn't as gripping as it would have been with like Lars von Trier because everything besides that was incredible (and the focus of the plot was just about surviving). I think both Clooney and Bullock pulled it off without falling into the typical whatever cliff of corny (minus wolf howling) basically thanks to the script. Don't see anything heavy-handed about it at all besides perhaps Mallick shot at the end?

I liked the movie but also rolled my eyes at Bullock and her dead child: a screenwriter's conceit to deepen her or something.

"only"? they're pretty much all a film needs

the test of a good song is if it sounds best done by one singer with an acoustic guitar.

And my hatred of the Dardennes gets a new flash point.

don't watch any more movies by ppl whose surname ends in 'ick'

ha, i suppose you missed out on lex's response to the tree of life.

Isn't the whole fucking point of Clooney's character is that he's a smarm-bucket?

if you only appreciate dialogue (lol) and characterization and charismatic acting why would you watch this?

"only"? they're pretty much all a film needs.

Getting confused between big-budget feature films and minimalist theatrical productions again...

i'll take the hunger games for my big-budget feature film thx

I need to see HG2. I wasn't a huge fan of the first film though, mostly cos of too many similarities to Battle Royale, but I have it on good authority the sequel is worthwhile.

I guess dialogue was really one of the last things films needed - silent movies were doing fine before sound came along, obstructing cinematography for some time.

Maybe this is clearer if we compare cinema to theatre. Gravity would make for a pretty weird (or at least: very different) experience on Broadway.

Gravity... On Ice!

HG2 is significantly better than the first one, but ... that's not a high bar.

Not implying theatre doesn't have visual strategies btw, only they're different.

And my hatred of the Dardennes gets a new flash point.

to the point of incomprehensibility!

it is less than pointless when shorn of its magnitude as a 3D spectacle, and i'm inclined to think there's something dare i say... rockist in suggesting that's a bad thing

with pacific rim i had the same "in dreams" feeling that doglatin had with this, that truly vertiginous vibe of like ohshitohshit

"i just listened to voodoo ray on these laptop speakers and.... idgi!??!"

i presume you all loved prometheus then

nah I thought it was dreadful and couldn't finish it.

Thrilled to find out lex is a Before Sunset/Sunrise fan

i mean if i could appreciate the hunger games which is about as big-budget a mainstream spectacle as film gets on that screen...

i'm as fascinated by the wonder of space as anyone but idk, any given well-made space documentary will serve my needs there and, bonus, not have clooney or bullock in it

I watched it on a plane & I enjoyed it ok. Def get that the spectacle is 90% of the movie though. It's no All Is Lost

Sandy having tantrums & panic attacks in space was super annoying

I was glad Clooney fucked off. I would have untethered him in the opening scene tbh

I did kind of enjoy Prometheus at the cinema (although I thought it was a bit ridiculous that people would still be wearing Ugg boots in 2086 or whenever it's set). That said, I hadn't seen any of the previous Alien films at the time so I just put any of the 'WTF that doesn't make any sense' moments as down to that. Now having gone back and watched the first two Aliens, I can see why people had so many issues with it.

actually the first two alien films are great examples of how to make space seem empty and huge and terrifying for, i presume, a thousandth of the technology/budget, because the ACTING AND SCRIPT BACKED IT UP. hard to be astonished by the emptiness of space in gravity when the script is emptier than it could ever be

i hadn't seen alien when i watched prometheus, i can assure you that wasn't necessary to find it a load of idiotic shite

Alien was a fucking snooze, and btw the script is a Roger Corman haunted house movie

you don't deserve 2001, lex

no one does, not even my worst enemies

Meh, I guess it says something about me/my tastes that, like lyrics in music, I consider 'Acting' and 'Dialogue' as some of the more 'disposable' aspects of what I appreciate about watching films. That is to say that while I think these are very important factors, and that there are exceptional circumstances where either I'll love a song mostly because it has great lyrics or I'll enjoy a film/TV show because I think the acting and dialogue are really great, more often than not if I think something's been directed really well, I prob won't notice bad dialogue (or at least let it slip).

I have a friend who says he couldn't get into Game of Thrones because of the amount of character exposition in the script ('My father, the King of the North' etc). OTOH I'd probably miss these (probably quite necessary given the amount of characters in GoT) details and give in to the lavish backdrops and the amount of thought that's gone into the mise-en-scene etc.

I must not be an auditory learner.

itt: lex has opinions

i fucking love prometheus, for the record; i have also never seen it on the big screen ;_;

it was outstanding in 3D Imax

oh god not another prometheus thread, i would seriously rather watch both of these movies on an airplane than go through this again

Could easily see Bullock finding her way to a 2nd win on this one. Blanchett seems a really soft frontrunner to me, et al.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Sunday, October 6, 2013 12:19 PM (8 months ago)

Hah, I love pre-detrius season.

ie March thru October

I watched it on a plane & I enjoyed it ok. Def get that the spectacle is 90% of the movie though. It's no All Is Lost

Fwiw watched All Is Lost on a plane recently, fucking tremendous experience, despite the godawful quality of the Lufthansa screens, and in contrast to stuff like American Hustle and Inside Llewelyn Davis which in theory should have been much more enjoyable in that given context due to reliance on dialogue/story but mainly just bored me to tears...

All Is Lost = also the much better Gravity, even with its sad lack of frogs.

the film i was surprised that i loved on a plane screen was wall-e. absolutely adored it.

nearly watched american hustle this time but everything about the premise seemed such a cliché

wall-e is gorgeous

i still hate the fatties-in-hovercraft sidestory but the rest is pure gold

nearly watched american hustle this time but everything about the premise seemed such a cliché

the premise of... making a drama about Abscam?

so i'm with lex on this. i pretty much thought it was terrible. well, maybe not terrible, but i'm really fucking tired of special effects jerkoff sessions trying to pass as good cinema. i kind of feel like, congrats dudes you just made a cool video game! nothing more. visually it was spectacular but not any more meaningful than a video game.

i LOVE cuaron, i'll rep for y tu mama tambien or children of men until i die, two of my favorite movies, so i was so excited to see this but totally let down.

honestly i kept thinking of castaway during this, themes of catastrophe, lonliness, wilderness, and survival. and for all the shit that it gets i think castaway is a MUCH better movie

Wilson certainly gave a better performance than Clooney

this was a really good movie glad it got made then I saw it

Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.

LOL. Every production meeting with Alfonso Cuaron - Guys, guys! I've got this idea...