Warner Bros. movie release
Warner Bros.’ new heart-pounding thriller “Gravity” starring
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney promises to pull audiences into the infinite
and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film was directed by Oscar® nominee
Alfonso Cuarón (“Children of Men,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”).
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| Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. |
In the film, Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a brilliant medical
engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski
(Clooney) in command. But on a seemingly routine mission, disaster strikes. The
shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski 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.
Right now, orbiting hundreds of miles above the Earth, there
are people working in a place where there is very little separation between
life and death. The inherent dangers of spaceflight have grown in the decades
since we first began venturing beyond our own atmosphere…and those increasing
dangers are manmade. The refuse from past missions and defunct satellites has
formed a debris field that can cause disaster in an instant. NASA has even
given the scenario a name: the Kessler Syndrome.
David Heyman, who produced “Gravity” with Cuarón, attests,
“This is a real issue. Every screw or piece of junk that has been dropped or
left behind is orbiting at an incredible speed and if, or when, they collide,
they create still more debris. It is life-threatening for the astronauts, the
spacecrafts and possibly for us here on Earth, too.”
Bullock affirms, “It is heartbreaking to think about not
only the destruction of this planet, but also about what we don’t see: the
trash that is literally orbiting above us.”
That premise becomes the catalyst for a harrowing fight for
survival in “Gravity,” which transports you into the awe-inspiring but
forbidding vacuum of space.
The
film opens in the silent abyss above the Earth’s atmosphere, where the Shuttle
Explorer is in orbit. Mission Specialist Ryan Stone (Bullock), attached to a
robotic arm, is installing a new scanning system on the Hubble Telescope. Dr.
Stone’s obvious discomfort in zero gravity is in stark contrast to Mission
Commander Matt Kowalski’s (Clooney) apparent ease. On his final voyage into
space, Kowalski is having a fine time testing the mettle of a new jet pack that
lets him fly unrestrained by the usual tethers.
On the other side of the planet, the intentional demolition
of an obsolete satellite has sent sharp fragments hurtling into space, setting
off a chain reaction that puts the fast-growing debris field on a collision
course with Explorer. The inescapable impact is catastrophic, destroying the
shuttle and leaving Stone and Kowalski as the lone survivors. All communication
with Mission Control has been lost…and, with it, any chance of rescue. Adrift
in the void, the two must find a way to see past their own limitations and
escape their inertia if they are ever going to get back to Earth.
Bullock remarks, “I think it’s a story about what makes us
try when it seems there is no light at the end of the tunnel. What is it that
makes you go that extra step just in case it was worth the effort to try?”
“It is very much a woman’s passage
from a place of loss and being in an emotionally numb state to a place where
she rediscovers her purpose and reason for life…and then fights for it,” Heyman
concludes.
Opening
across the Philippines in Oct. 3
in IMAX 3D, Digital 3D, 2D and regular theatres, “Gravity” is distributed
worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company.
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