George Clooney Joins Sandra Bullock in Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’

There have been numerous names attached to Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, ‘Gravity,’ but one name many will be happy to hear is actually George Clooney who will be joining the sci-fi adventure. Deadline confirmed that Clooney will be replacing Robert Downey Jr., that had to duck out of the undertaking due to a schedule conflict. Clooney and also Sandra Bullock will play the sole survivors of a space station crash.

Cuarón’s Three dimensional feature will begin production in late April or early May possibly, allowing Bullock time to finish her other Warner Bros. film, ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Shut,’ which also stars Tom Hanks and newbie Thomas Horn. The woman’s character will be in the spot light, alone, for most of ‘Gravity,’ with the goal of coming back home to her young daughter encouraging her fight for success. Clooney takes on the role with the space station team head who also manages to avoid the wrath of an exploded asteroid which destroys the site both heroes are working on.

This isn’t Clooney’s 1st trip beyond the stars — your actor spent time investigating the particular troubled crew of a area station in Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 motion picture ‘Solaris.’ Now that we finally have our leads, will ‘Gravity’ prove to be a worthy check in to Cuarón’s last sci-fi thriller, ‘Children of Men?’