5 Fast Film Facts on the 2013 Sandra Bullock space film Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
|
GRAVITY (2013)
Text Version:
5. Despite winning an Oscar for the score by Steven Price, a Special Edition Blu-Ray is available which has completely omitted the music.
4. The voice at Mission Control is played by Ed Harris, who portrayed mission director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.
3. Gravity ties in with a short film by the director’s son (and film’s writer) Jonas Cuaron called Aningaaq, in which we see the other side of the conversation Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) has with a stranger over the radio.
2. Bullock’s character crashes into Lake Powell, the same lake used for Charlton Heston’s spaceship crash in Planet of the Apes (1968).
1. At one point in the casting the film would have starred Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr.
5. Despite winning an Oscar for the score by Steven Price, a Special Edition Blu-Ray is available which has completely omitted the music.
4. The voice at Mission Control is played by Ed Harris, who portrayed mission director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.
3. Gravity ties in with a short film by the director’s son (and film’s writer) Jonas Cuaron called Aningaaq, in which we see the other side of the conversation Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) has with a stranger over the radio.
2. Bullock’s character crashes into Lake Powell, the same lake used for Charlton Heston’s spaceship crash in Planet of the Apes (1968).
1. At one point in the casting the film would have starred Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr.
Before You Go...
Being an astronaut isn't for everyone, but if you fancy suiting up and spending time in a hostile environment then cave diving might be for you. Our next article explores a sci-fi movie all about it:
Deep Dive Into James Cameron Produced Film Sanctum
Also Worth Checking Out
Being an astronaut isn't for everyone, but if you fancy suiting up and spending time in a hostile environment then cave diving might be for you. Our next article explores a sci-fi movie all about it:
Deep Dive Into James Cameron Produced Film Sanctum
Also Worth Checking Out
- What's worse than being stranded all alone in a pod adrift in space? Being Stranded alone in a pod drifting through someone's lower intestine - Check out Science Fiction Film Innerspace
- What else is worse than being stranded all alone in a pod adrift in space? Being stranded in a boat adrift in the ocean with other people - Check out Hitchcock Thriller Lifeboat
- Anything else worse than being lost in space / a person / the sea? Perhaps having a Mexican drug cartel try to kill you - Denis Villeneuve's Super Tense Movie Sicario
|