Yesterday saw THN bring you the first critical reactions from Alfonso Cuaron’s forthcoming space-set survival thriller GRAVITY, which opened the 70th Venice Film Festival. We also included Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock’s comments about the challenging shoot alongside fellow Oscar-winner George Clooney (the only two actors featuring in the film), as well as the latest US one-sheet featuring a concerned Clooney close-up. Today is the turn of a terrified Sandra Bullock, whose character is forced to float above the Earth following an accident that leaves their shuttle ruined by space debris.
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.
GRAVITY hits cinemas from 4th October 2013 in the US and 8th November in the UK and was shot in 3D.
Source: Warner Bros.
