Gravity
The great Guillermo del Toro told me a little something about Alfonso Cuaron‘s currently-shooting Gravity at last night’s Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark after-party. He said that Cuaron and dp Emmanuel Lubezki (a.k.a. “Chivo”) are again intending to push the cinematic envelope, although in a different way than they did with Children of Men. The 3D space-rescue drama costars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney within shouting distance of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity set.
I’ve gotten hold of a second draft of Cuaron’s script (written in ’09). If anyone has a more recent draft, please forward. The co-authors of a 2010 draft are reportedly Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron and Rodrigo Garcia Barcha.
The Wikipedia logline: “In Earth’s orbit, satellite debris hits a space station, destroying most of it and killing all but two astronauts. The remaining astronauts fight for survival and to return home.” One of the astronauts will be played by Bullock, apparently. I don’t know who Clooney plays, but let’s assume he’s the other astronaut in peril and nor some mission-control Ed Harris-type guy.
Several actresses were considered and/or romanced for Bullock’s role — Angelina Jolie (allegedly demanded her big fat $20 million fee), Natalie Portman (pregnancy interfered), Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, etc.
Gravity will be released in 2012 by Warner Bros.
Given the age, fame, and talent range of that group, it seems their criterion for the role was apparently “must be female”.
Ha, quite right in that assessment, dino velvet.
Still prefer the novel to the film Children of Men by a wide margin. Which is too bad considering the film’s greatest claim to fame is its visualization of action, but I always agreed with Matthew Zoller Seitz on it, in general (“The Tale Wags the Dog,” I believe was the title of his review).
Erm, probably *Tail* Wags the Dog. Anyway…
Children of Men is so insanely good, even if it’s TOTALLY that Boogie Nights thing when I watch it– yeah, the whole movie’s excellent and Owen and Caine and Moore are solid gold… but all I’m waiting for is the final bombed-out FMJ section, same as with Boogie Nights and the Alfred Molina setpiece.
Yeah, how do cull THAT list of INSANE HOTNESS down to… Sandra Bulliock? (Other than, yeah, she actually sells tickets, which only Jolie and Portman can among that list of younger, more awesome chicks.)
Ah yes, Marion Cotillard, playing the old archetype “gorgeous delicate French Astronaut.” I mean, I like Marion Cotillard just fine, but why is it when she shows up in a movie with a SUPER thick accent it’s never addressed? Public Enemies, Inception (where Michael Caine played her father?!), the new Batman where her name is Darlene Jones or some shit that clearly isn’t French. It’s like people go accent-blind with her. The only other performer who has ever demanded so much suspension of disbelief with the accent is Schwarzenegger. And, just that one time, Kevin Costner.
Cotillard’s character in PE had French parents
Oh yeah, I sorta remember that. But wasn’t she supposed to be from Illinois or Ohio or something? I just remember her being like “Eye gru ahp in Ohiiiyoo” or something and thinking it was ridiculous.
Dude, Connery all spray-tanned and “Spanish” in Highlander was THE SHIT.
The only positive thing I can say about Bullock’s casting is that at least it’s not Julia Roberts.
But that’s about it. She’s about as bland as it gets. I would have preferred anyone else on that list.
Connery was actually an EGYPTIAN in the employ of the Spanish crown. Which is so insane it goes beyond racism into pure gibberish. More of that, please.
The cool thing about COM was seeing Jax Teller going all terrorist. Dig those blonde dreads, boyo. They shot that close to my flat. Cool seeing him in the pub therein.
” She’s not flat chested or under age — nor a vapid blond”
Where’s the fun in that?
I see LexG’s lair full of blow up dolls a la that Dennis Hopper sketch when he hosted SNL. Clearly, he’s scared of anything with a vagina and a brain.
Yes. Marion Cotillard has a “French accent” in Inception. Just like Jackie Chan had a “Chinese accent” in Rush Hour. It’s fine–it’s just a slight accent. Not at all like she learned her lines phonetically–oh no.
Seriously, I think she’s a fine actress, but there is no way it’s not just a little bit silly. To think she can play someone who is raised by an English-speaking parent, marry an English-speaking man, raise two English-speaking children, in a world where English is more and more the international language of dream-espionage manuals, and still speak like that. But I’m sure she’ll be super convincing as Rayanne Whitebread in Dark Knight Returns. I can’t wait.
1) Her English really is fine, as it is for most French people of her age group. Her accent is more a function of speaking it more often.
2) I wouldn’t worry about it in Batman 3, there’s no way she’s not actually playing Talia Al Guhl anyway so the exotic tone will make sense.
One thing I’ve learned from talking about ‘Inception’ on the Internet is that there is no accent too slight for movie geeks on-line to have a problem understanding it.
Meanwhile, these same self-appointed accent experts will call Michael Caine’s accent “English”. Like that’s all there is to it. Like people hadn’t been making fun of Caine’s accent for years before everybody got used to it.
I’ve never had any trouble understanding Cotillard’s English. She is pronouncing it phonetically, after all. Like ABBA.
But please, don’t let that put a cramp in the Bobby Lupo message board report.
I saw Inception three times and always took it for granted that Miles was Cobb’s father, not Mal’s. But now that I think about it, was this ever expressly stated either way? We know he is the grandfather of Cobb’s children, but other than that…
“Yes, how could a British character who lives in Paris father a child who speaks with a French accent?!?!”
This — plus, in a film like this you ALWAYS have to be open to the possibility of the unreliable narrator — whether it be Mal (in the scenes she dominates), or working your way up — even Cobb or Nolan himself.
I’m not entirely convinced that Mal isn’t being “forged” as a manifestation of his subconscious (by Miles?) — at least in some scenes any more than I’m not convinced the entire film isn’t some sort of inception on Cobb himself, in ways that mirror the “textual” plot of the film. Think about this: what would Cobb’s next “rational” move be if the top on that table doesn’t stop spinning after we cut to black (and why is it that he’s using HER totem, anyway, when he explicitly warns against it earlier??)?
This is a film that truly embraces multiple viewings and extensive brainstorming. Embrace them.
The top is a red herring. The wedding ring is the symbol of reality vs dream world.
The symbol how? Just because he wears it when he enters the dream world, and doesn’t as he exits doesn’t automatically means it takes on any sort of significance. Do you actually think it’s someone’s totem?
I think the top is a red herring, too, but not for the reasons you likely do (I think it’s been planted in his mind as “his totem,” when in reality it could very well just be a simple device to wake him up from his dream — aka the entire film).
“But now that I think about it, was this ever expressly stated either way?”
Ghost – I guess you could argue that it’s not 100% specific, but he refers to Caine as his former teacher and calls him by his first name.
Where’s the R-rated video footage of Bullock devouring that banana?
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