To little surprise, we learned yesterday that Alfonso Cuaron‘s Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will make its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival after it opens the Venice Film Festival a few days earlier. For those of us that have been patiently awaiting the new film from the Children of Men director and will be in attendance at Toronto this is quite exciting, but will the wait ultimately be a let down or will this film exceed our expectations?
Bullock stars as Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. 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.
Watch the second trailer for the film directly below and let me know what you think.
Gravity hits theaters on October 4.
