In space no one can hear you act. Luckily Alfonso Cuarón brought some special cameras on board for this long shot from the opening of the upcoming space thriller Gravity. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts who mis-step during a spacewalk. This one small step catapults Bullock's character, Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer on her first space mission, into the icy cold of space. Clooney plays Matt Kowalsky, an experienced astronaut on his last space shuttle mission when the shuttle is destroyed.
“Explorer, this is Houston.”
Alfonso Cuarón told the audience at Comic-Con that Bullock and Clooney are the only two actors in the entire film. Cuarón, who directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Children of Men, and his production team had to invent new kinds of filmmaking robotics to make the shots. He said "Everything was a big miscalculation, because you're writing the screenplay and thinking of cool things that you're going to do, and then the problem is that you have to make it happen. We realized that the existent technology was not going to make it, so we needed to create new technology. That's the reason it took four and a half years for us to make the thing."
Cuarón also used a special camera that moved at 25 mph and stopped about an inch from her face. Bullock who was strapped into a harness in her space suit was barely able to move if anything went wrong. Bullock says “What was even scarier than that was the technology was being created on the spot. (Cuarón) was like the evil puppeteer. If that robot did decide to continue through my face, I couldn't have gotten out of the way.”
Sandra Bullock told a Comic-Con audience that she had to shoot ten hours a day in a 9’x9’ cube that wasn’t much bigger than a prison cell making the filming like solitary confinement in space. The original plan was to shoot in a “vomit comet,” a reduced-gravity plane that flies into the Earth’s stratosphere and then goes into free fall, dropping thousands of feet in a second to create a a zero-gravity environment.
Gravity will open the Venice Film Festival and then get launches into theaters on October 4.
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