Update: Jolie’s casting has turned out to be false.
There’s a report in from Vulture that Angelina Jolie is set up for an Alfonso Cuarón film called Gravity. It’s seemingly a science fiction film that would star Jolie as the last surviving crew member on a space mission desperately attempting to return to Earth and her daughter. Jolie’s character would apparently be virtually the only one in the movie. Shades of Moon? Cuarón wrote the script with his [adult] son Jonás. The two also collaborated on an animated short called The Shock Doctrine in 2007.
That’s not a whole lot to go on, but it’s Alfonso Cuarón and he gave us one of the best sci-fi films of the last decade with Children of Men. Even better, the movie is set up with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures who have a pretty stellar record over the last few years of supporting directors and their visions. Cuarón and sci-fi will have me in the theater without knowing anything else. Hopefully we’ll be in for a treat, assuming this goes forward.
