Alfonso Cuarón's new science fiction film with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock(I would have prefered Marion Cotillard who was up for the role at one point) playing the leads, though apparently it's Sandra Bullock on screen for most of the film. After the wonderful Children of Men and one of the darker better Harry Potter films, it's one I'm looking forwards to.
Set on a remote space station, the story begins as a team of astronauts are on an expedition outside the station, but only the team leader (Clooney) and his female colleague (Bullock) are left alive after an exploding satellite kills the other members of the crew, setting off a desperate race home for the latter to get to her child.
The film contains only 156 shots, one of the longest is a 17 minute take for the opening of the film(he played with this in Children of Men also but not as long). Will be released in 3D also.
Set on a remote space station, the story begins as a team of astronauts are on an expedition outside the station, but only the team leader (Clooney) and his female colleague (Bullock) are left alive after an exploding satellite kills the other members of the crew, setting off a desperate race home for the latter to get to her child.
The film contains only 156 shots, one of the longest is a 17 minute take for the opening of the film(he played with this in Children of Men also but not as long). Will be released in 3D also.
Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.’ So it ends up the film only has 156 shots in the entire two-hour movie, many of them six, eight, 10 minutes long.