Why Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón Will Never Make a Space Movie Again

Why Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón Will Never Make a Space Movie Again

By Caitlin Roper  10.01.13    9:30 AM
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Back when you dreamed about being an astronaut, you imagined floating in space, looking back at Earth, and it sounded amazing. Not so much if you’re not attached to a station or a ship and have no way to get back home. That’s the situation writer-director Alfonso Cuarón created for Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in October’s Gravity. The actors play a pair of astronauts whose shuttle explodes, leaving them tethered to each other — and nothing else. Imagine the worst claustrophobia you’ve ever had combined with the worst acrophobia and you’ll start to get some sense of what’s in store for them. While Cuarón made his mark with intimate movies like Children of Men and Y Tu Mamè Tambièn, he wrote Gravity with his son, Jonès, who en- couraged his dad to up the stakes. The result was a four-and-a-half-year odyssey of research, animation, and CG innovation like nothing Cuarón had done before. The writer-director spoke to us about microgravity, Méliès, and the magic of silence. After all, in space, no one can hear you scream, “Action!”
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