Gravity | Through the Shattered Lens

This may have been posted before, I haven’t seen anything for it, but I’m not sure. Blew my mind, though, as the short version of this was shown as one of the trailers for seeing Elysium. It’s fantastic to watch something that you know is just a story, just a movie unfold in front you and yet feel like you’re moving with it.

I honestly believe Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity may have the potential to actually give me motion sickness when I finally catch it in the IMAX (and I don’t suffer from it). I love how the camera is so free flowing here, trying to catch everything that’s going on. I spent most of this muttering…”Omigod! Reach for something! Anything!! Grab it, Dammit!” The following is an extended trailer for the film.

Enjoy.

It’s been almost 7 years since Alfonso Cuarón had directed a film. His last one, Children of Men, was such an underappreciated piece of scifi filmmaking. Now, after all these years, he returns to the scifi genre for his latest film due out later this fall.

Gravity stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as a pair of astronauts who have become stranded in space after their space shuttle explodes and takes out the space station they’ve been sent to. The film literally is about just the characters Clooney and Bullock plays. It’s quite the sparse cast, but should also make for an interesting drama about two individual who must find a way to save themselves after being stranded in space with no way to contact Earth.

The film will be filmed fully digital with the 3D coming by way of post-production conversion. Even from the sequences put in the teaser it gives hints at 3D that looks to wow and immerse rather than annoy.

Gravity is set for an October 4, 2013 release date.