Gravity

[dark_b]

i dont watch a Cuarón movie for hot girls.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Scarlett is far more than just a hot girl.

 

[terry78]

i dont watch a Cuarón movie for hot girls.

It doesn't hoit.

 

[Electrix]

Scarlett Johansson has the same agent and Downey Jr., which is probably why she was in Iron Man 2 and is most likely why she has been offered this role.

I can think of better actresses for the part, and some may have a hard time believing a 26 year old mother had the time to become a fully qualified astronaut.

 

[Octoberist]

It's between Scarlett and surprisingly Blake. I've never seen a studio who love actors and actresses as much as WB.

Lisbeth Salander, the title character in Columbia's adaptation of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," isn't the only juicy part that has actresses jumping through hoops: At Warner Bros., Blake Lively (pictured left) and Scarlett Johansson (pictured right) are vying for the chance to star in "Gravity."Alfonso Cuaron, who is directing and co-wrote the script with his brother Jonas, is readying the outer space thriller, to which Robert Downey Jr. is attached.

During the past two weeks, Johansson and Lively tested for the lead role of a female astronaut lost in space. A decision is expected within the next week or two.

The movie's plot revolves around astronauts repairing the Hubble telescope who are hit with an avalanche of satellite junk. In a plot akin to "Cast Away," the surviving astronaut must fight her way back to Earth, where she hopes to reunite with her daughter.
The project originally was set up at Universal as a vehicle for Angelina Jolie, but it moved to Warners, where it hit debris of its own: Jolie left the project, partially because of the studio's balking at paying her $20 million fee. Although Downey brings star power to the project, his role is overshadowed by the female lead, whose struggle to survive becomes the movie's focus.

As the project underwent further developments this summer, Marion Cotillard, who stars in Warners' "Inception," tested for the lead role.
But now Lively and Johansson look like the likeliest candidates, even though they are younger than Jolie. It's unclear whether the character is still written as a mother in the latest draft, though both actresses have played older than their ages in recent movies.
Filming probably would begin early next year, depending on the availability of the female lead.
Lively is fast becoming a Warners favorite. The studio is high on the actress because of her work in Ben Affleck's upcoming crime drama "The Town," and it has cast her in "Green Lantern."

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[dark_b]

Cuarón will get some freedom but the female lead will be from studio. fair.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Lively must be impressing them with GL for this to happen or Cauron sees something. If that's the case I should be thinking more positive towards her as Ferris.

 

[Paroxysm]

I'd go with ScarJo.

 

[Octoberist]

Angelina Jolie Again Declines to Star in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’; Project Now in Jeopardy?

EXCLUSIVE: Gravity, the 3D film that Warner Bros is mobilizing with director Alfonso Cuaron and Robert Downey Jr., is suddenly in danger of falling back to earth after Angellina Jolie said no to a full court press and a big money offer to star in the film. It has put Warner Bros in a bind. The studio needs an actress who can hold the screen and draw an audience to an $80 million film. Much like Tom Hanks' role in Cast Away, the Gravity heroine is the only person onscreen for a large part of the movie. Beyond Jolie, which other actress do you bet on?

Cuaron first courted Jolie when the project was tethered at Universal. She was intrigued with the filmmaker, but passed around the time it landed at Warner Bros. I'm told the studio tested or made approaches to actresses including Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, Blake Lively. Warner Bros made a second overture to Jolie, but she just passed for a second time. While Downey certainly has the star power to carry such a movie, he plays a comparatively small role and it was never Downey's or Cuaron's intention for him to carry the picture.


Scripted by Cuaron and his son Jonas, Gravity is set on a remote space station. While a team leader (Downey) and a female colleague are traveling outside, the other team members get wiped out by a debris field from an exploding satellite. The film's central focus is the heroine's desperate attempt to return home to her child. The intention is to shoot the film next year after Downey completes Sherlock Holmes 2.


I don't see Jolie returning to the fold. Right now, she is focused on making her directorial debut this fall on a love story that takes place in 1990s Bosnia, from a script she wrote, with GK Films co-financing with an equity partner. Not counting offers coming in, Jolie and longtime manager Geyer Kosinski are figuring out a full slate of projects that are in various stages of development for her. They include joining director Tim Burton in the role of Maleficent in Disney's Sleeping Beauty; playing the title role in Cleopatra, which is being scripted by Brian Helgeland for Sony Pictures Entertainment; playing the lead role in Scarpetta, the Fox 2000 adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's bestselling novel series about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, which Kerry Williamson adapted.

source:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/angelina-jolie-pass-puts-gravity-in-shaky-orbit-for-warner-bros/

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[TheComicbookKid]

What's really sad is that Jolie hasn't opened a non-action flick to any success so there is no need to act like the world is ending. It wasn't guaranteed in the first place. They just need the right actress for the role.

 

[Octoberist]

I think they'll resolve this.

 

[dark_b]

this is an 80 million movie? hehehehhehehehehhehehehe funnny joke.

how stupid do you have to be to think that WB needs Jolie for an 80 million movie?if the studio really acts like then the budget is huge.

i of course disagree with the way WB thinks.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Why can't they pull a "Salt" and rewrite the script for a male character
Also 80 million and a PG-13 movie. C'mon. This movie could easily make it's budget back with it's visuals. And they don't need Jolie for that.

 

[dark_b]

dont forget that RDJ is also in this. and its in 3DE

-RDJ
-PG13
-3D


i hate that they woudl rather use a bad actress who is known to the public insted of casting a good woemen who is acting for 10 years. it makes me aaaaaaaaaaaaangry.

 

[Project862006]

moon only made 9 million

sunshine made 32 million

space like movies have not made really huge bank

 

[dark_b]

sunshine and Moon had a budget of 80 millions and were realesed in 3D?

please

 

[Hunter Rider]

sunshine and Moon had a budget of 80 millions and were realesed in 3D?

please

Doesn't matter how much the film costs or that it's filmed in the latest fad, the bottom line is space movies without alien conflict struggle, add to that the fact this will be Cast Away in space and you can understand the hesitation to pull the trigger.

 

[dark_b]

look Sunshine and Moon didnt have a marketing campaign like Gravity will have from WB on a budget 100 if not more.

 

[Hunter Rider]

All the marketing in the world won't sell a movie to people if they think they are going to be watching an actress they aren't into in a space ship for 2 hours on her own.

 

[dark_b]

if the movie is good and if they can market'' in 3D in space with an emotional story'' then they will come.

you need good word of mouth. and with a studio like WB you can build this up.

Cuaron will make a good movie. just dont force him an actress that is only cute and doesnt fit into hes vision.

 

[Hunter Rider]

You need an actress that audiences are willing to sit through 2 hours of alone, space drama on it's own is way too niche, I don't care how good a movie he makes, you cast badly and you can kiss 80 mil goodbye.

 

[dark_b]

since when is it important to have a big movie star for a 2 hour movie?this is hollywood studio BS IMO.

i refuse to belive that Salt made very dollar only because of Jolie.


if WB could give Snyder 80 millions for a s 300 movie with painted abs then they need to give Cuaron 100 for hes Gravity . its fair and its the right thing to do.

 

[Hunter Rider]

since when is it important to have a big movie star for a 2 hour movie?this is hollywood studio BS IMO.

i refuse to belive that Salt made very dollar only because of Jolie.


if WB could give Snyder 80 millions for a s 300 movie with painted abs then they need to give Cuaron 100 for hes Gravity . its fair and its the right thing to do.

Why is it the right thing to do? look at it logically, the movie Snyder made was an action packed film very much aimed at the teenage male movie goer, now Gravity is about a woman on her own for most of the movie floating in a space ship, the reason you need a star is b/c people in the real world don't give two ****s about Cuaron and probalby have no idea who he is, and if they are gonna sit through a 2 hour movie with 1 character in most of it then that character needs to be played by a draw.

 

[Laderlappen]

Actors are really not that box office powerful as people think. All the biggest stars in the world makes flops all the time. Like half of Jolie's films flopped. Even her biggest films havent been that big at the Box office.

 

[Project862006]

Salt : 244 Million
Wanted : 341 Million
Mr. And Mrs. Smith : 478 Million

even Changeling was able to double its 50 million dollar budget