I really like Alfonso Cuaron as a director, his style is consistent and increasingly engrossing. The director of movies like Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuaron is one of the finer working today, and his latest movie in production, Gravity sounds like the kind of ambitious project that one expects from a director so technically minded as he is.
Gravity is a movie written by Cuaron and his brother Jonas and scribe Rodrigo Garcia. Not too much is known about the story other than majority of the movie is set in space, within zero gravity. It's described as a thriller about a woman who survived a disastrous space mission and follows her on her attempts to return to Earth and her daughter. The movie is gonna be a hybrid of CG animation and live-action, being called a 60-40 compromise by Cuaron. Cuaron, who is known for his drive for technical perfection in his movies and his use of long, fluid tracking shots, surely will push the CG to the limits, with rumors that the opening shot of the movie lasts as long as 20 minutes!
It's been known for a while that Robert Downey, Jr. would have a significant role in the movie, and it was originally to be made with Angelina Jolie in the lead role, but she dropped out some time ago. As the movie has now found a home at Warner Bros. and Cuaron seems to be moving forward to start filming by the end of this year to meet the 2012 release date, Jolie has been replaced by Scarlett Johansson. I've never been impressed by Johansson's acting, I can still be proved wrong, but if there's one thing I do value is Cuaron's abilities as a director, so I'm not too worried, while still scratching my head over her casting.
Regardless over any thoughts about the cast, I enjoy Cuaron as a director and I am more than excited to see another big budget movie that is not based upon any other property but written directly for the screen. Hopefully such ambition will yield fruitful results.
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