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Alfonso Cuarón's 'Gravity' Finally Set for an October 2013 Release

by Ben Pearson
January 15, 2013
Source: BoxOfficeMojo

If you've seen Alfonso Cuarón's excellent Children of Men - and really, all of you should - you should be just as excited as we are about his follow-up project, Gravity. The sci-fi movie stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as two astronauts who experience a catastrophe in space. The film relies heavily on visual effects, and early rumors suggested that the movie will even open with a 20 minute long take. So yes, we're pretty damn stoked about it. After delaying it from its original November 2012 calendar spot, The Playlist has noticed that Warner Bros has officially set an October 4th, 2013 release date for the anticipated film.

Here's the official synopsis for Cuarón's Gravity, straight from Warner Bros, if you're interested:

Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). 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.

This sounds excellent (it made Ethan's Most Anticipated of 2013 list), and I'm glad that it's not being shoved into the summer movie season. October seems like a great slot for it, and its only big competition that weekend should be Robert Rodriguez's sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, so hopefully this will be a little more commercially successful than Children of Men, which most cinephiles love but you'd be hard pressed to find an average Joe who's seen it. We're really excited to see what Cuarón has in store for us after six years away from the director's chair, and I'm betting that Gravity will exceed all of our expectations. Cool?

Filed under Movie News, Release Date, SciFi

From around the web:

http://www.facebook.com/TheChosenPessimist Jon Odishaw

Children of men is one of my ten favorites of all time. October is too far away.
zer0limit

and all of the art house community has splooged at this news
97point6

It rises once again, let's hope it makes it to the screen this time.
David Banner

Really looking forward to this movie. Children of Men is probably the closest we'll get to a Half-Life movie
Isildur_of_Numenor

All work and no Gravity makes Isildur a dull boy. All work and no Gravity makes Isildur a dull boy. All work and no Gravity makes Isildur a dull boy. All work and no Gravity makes Isildur a dull boy. All work and no Gravity makes Isildur a dull boy.
http://www.facebook.com/chris.groves.507 Chris Groves

Very interested in this movie. This concept sounds great. To say it doesn't have much competition is a bit extreme, though. Opening against Sin City: A Dame to Kill for and Revenge of the Sith 3D is no small task.
zey

The casting of Sandra Bullock is worrisome, but I trust Cuarón...
avi

uber cool!
rocky728

This was among my most anticipated of 2012 til WB pulled it. Can not wait for this.
DAVIDPD

Bitchin'.
http://www.facebook.com/chris.groves.507 Chris Groves

I was under the impression that Clooney had a "very small" part in the film, but this makes it seem like he is in much more of a 'co-lead' type of role, which I find infinitely more interesting.