Giant Freakin Robot

While the new sci-fi film from visionary director Alfonso Cuarón was delayed for a few months, Gravity looks like it was worth the wait. The follow-up to Cuarón’s 2006 Children of Men, promises to be one of the best movies of the year. Today, Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Gravity, and there’s only one word to describe it: terrifying.

In one brief moment, the trailer seems to go from majestically beautiful to sheer panic and terror. Gravity follows Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer on her first Space Shuttle mission, and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), a veteran astronaut who is in command of the shuttle flight. While on a routine spacewalk, their ship is destroyed and Dr. Stone and Kowalsky are left to drift through the vacuum of outer space.

“Don’t Let Go.” Although the film was delayed for almost a year, it feels like Alfonso Cuarón’s follow-up to Children of Men will be something worth waiting for. The science fiction film Gravity was rumored to premiere at last year’s Cannes Film Festival in France, but production delays pushed the groundbreaking film’s release date to October 2013. Now Warner Bros. has released the film’s first poster to get people excited to see Alfonso Cuarón’s return to filmmaking.

Gravity is a highly ambitious film that centers on only two characters, Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer on her first Space Shuttle mission, and a veteran astronaut named Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), who is in command of the shuttle flight. During a routine spacewalk, the space shuttle is destroyed.

From Oblivion to Elysium, this will be a great year in science fiction. There hasn’t been a year in recent memory that has seen so many exciting science fiction movies lined up, and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is no exception. After a few delays, audiences will finally get to see the Mexican director’s cerebral sci-fi offering. The full trailer for Gravity will be released this Thursday, but Entertainment Tonight has a first look at the mind-bending sci-fi film starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

Although the 16-second preview contains annoying voice-overs and obtrusive inserts, it still delivers something interesting and exciting. It does seem strange that Warner Bros. went the Entertainment Tonight route to launch their marketing campaign for Gravity, but I guess you have to start somewhere.

Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is one of the most anticipated movies of 2013. The science fiction film has been in the works for a few years now, and was slated for release after last year’s Cannes Film Festival. After lukewarm early test screenings, however, Gravity was pushed back to November 2013. It appears Cuarón and his team got it right this time around, because the film is now receiving a positive response from early test screenings.

According to Ain’t It Cool News, one of their insiders recently attended a test screening for Cuarón’s Gravity. Although the visual effects were not completed in this early version, some members of the audience felt it was “Next Level,” even comparing it to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void. According to Stanley Boobrick from Ain’t It Cool News:

This is like if Avatar had been released in 1927 a week after The Jazz Singer. People won’t know how to comprehend what they are seeing. In short, Gravity genuinely makes you feel like you have been to space. It really, really does. And guess what? It’s beautiful, and awe-inspiring, and profound (and a little scary too), everything you thought it would be since you first thought about going to space when you were a kid.