Film Preview: Gravity

To be presented in 3D, Alfonso Cuarón has been involved in every step of making Gravity from co-writing, producing and editing as well as being the director. He rose to prominence with the Mexican drama Y Tu Mamá También before filming Children of Men with Clive Owen. Initially Robert Downey Jr was slated to be the lead male actor but he was later replaced by George Clooney. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival with James Cameron saying "I think it's the best space photography ever done, I think it's the best space film ever done, and it's the movie I've been hungry to see for an awful long time".

Medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first Space Shuttle mission accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), who is commanding his final expedition. During a spacewalk, debris from a satellite crashes into the space shuttle Explorer, leaving it mostly destroyed, and stranding them in space with limited air. Without means of communication with Earth, they must cooperate to survive.

Gravity is released in the UK on 8th November 2013.