Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Gravity

3/15/10 - Robert Downey Jr. replaces Angelina Jolie in Alfonso Cuaron’s 3-D space film Gravity, deadline.com reported.  Downey is negotiating a deal to star as the leader of a team posted at a remote space station who is traveling outside the station with a female colleague when the other team members are killed by debris from an exploded satellite.  Cuaron wrote the script, which had originally been developed at Universal with the intention of having Jolie play the female role, with his son, Jonas. Much of the film was to be devoted to Jolie's struggle to get back to Earth and her daughter. But Jolie passed on the project around the time Universal cut it loose, and it will now be co-financed by Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures.

2/26/10 – According to New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Angeline Jolie will star in Gravity, a space thriller from director Alfonso Cuarón instead of a sequel to 2008's Wanted.  In the sci-fi movie, which will be produced by longtime Harry Potter producer David Heyman, Jolie will be by herself for much of the film. Jolie plays the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter.

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