If there’s one truly intriguing Avatar-enabled film in the pipe, it’s certainly Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity,
about a man and a woman left stranded on a space station, after the
death of the rest of their crew. Intended to be carried almost entirely
by a single actress (lightly supported by Robert Downey Jr.), with over
half of the film composed of computer generated imagery, and some shots
lasting up to 20 minutes without an edit… Gravity
sounds ambitious, if nothing else. This kind of project represents the
potential happy fallout from the mammoth success of a tech-driven film
like Cameron’s opus.
Unfortunately, according to Deadline,
Angelina Jolie has passed for a second time on the project, leaving
Warner Brothers and Cuaron without an A-list female to carry an $80
million motion-picture. While I don’t weep for the loss of Jolie
specifically (she neither bothers nor excites me), I am worried that
this puts the film as Cuaron envisions it in jeopardy*. Deadline
lists a number of women WB spoke with or tested for the role and,
frankly, nearly every one of them seems like a more interesting choice
than Jolie- “the
studio tested or made approaches to actresses including Sandra Bullock
and Natalie Portman (word around town is the studio’s intrigued with
both), Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett
Johansson, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde,
Blake Lively.” It’ll be a
goddamn shame if Warner Brothers has lost all of these actresses’
numbers and either shut the project down, or force Cuaron to warp the
film’s focus.
It remains to be seen what these developments mean for Gravity overall, but I’m crossing my fingers that it is just a small setback on the road to a better film. More when we hear it.
*More
than a touch of irony here, considering another visionary filmmaker’s
large-scale cosmic drama was hamstrung by the departure of her equally
A-list partner, Brad Pitt.
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*cough*Olivia Wilde*cough*
I'd be seriously disinterested in it if either Sandra Bullock and or Natalie Portman were the main actress. Then again Sienna Miller and Naomi Watts are good choices as well.
"one truly intriguing Avatar-enabled film in the pipe" … I believe you're forgetting a little something called "At the Mountains of Madness."
Zoe Saldana. That is all.
That's not irony. That's a strange coincidence.
Good. She is not a very talented actress. But, not good if it fucks the movie up. What working actor would turn down the chance to be in a new Cuaron movie? Doesn't she know enough about movies to know that he, in all likeliness, is going to make something incredible? And Pitt, too. How did he not know enough about Aronofsky to be confident he was going to be in something special? Gahhh. Whatever. Onward and upward.
@#3:Yep, that would destroy all interest completely alright.
Gina Carano or Carla Gugino in zero g for two hours. Please.
Marion Cotillard.
Megan Fox.
Yea I said it.
Does Julianne Moore not exist any more? She's the obvious choice here. Why does it have to be a matter of hotness? Seeing that list of names, that's what it feels like. Sadly, without Jolie, I doubt this can happen because most of these other actress don't have the command that does to be in any way believable in that part. Kidman? And yes also to Naomi Watts.
1) Jodie Foster.
2) Julianne Moore.
3) Sigourney Weaver.
Please God not Sandra Bullock. Anyone but Sandra Bullock. I'd rather see Sandra Bernhardt. And on a side note, isn't it amazing that Angelina Jolie keeps getting work? She's not a very good actress, yet she keeps getting work. Verification attempts: 6
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