With such varied credits as Great Expectations, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Children of Men as a director, Alfonso Cuaron has certainly been involved in a lot of things, and even more when you add in his role as a producer. He’s not directed a feature length film since 2006’s Children of Men, but is now back with Gravity, which he co-wrote with his son. The film was one that saw a variety of people involved with it in terms of casting, including Robert Downey, Jr. set for it, before it settled on George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It’s largely a two-person film and one that by all appearances looks to be a very personal one. The film is set for an October 4th, 2013 release.
Plot concept: Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a medical engineer on her first Space Shuttle mission and is accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney), who is in command of the shuttle flight, due to be his last. During a spacewalk, the space shuttle is destroyed, and Stone and Kowalsky are stranded in space with no communications with Earth.
