It becomes clear that the remaining Soyuz module cannot return them to Earth safely.Īs they approach the ISS they realize they have almost no air left and only one thruster burst remaining in Kowalski’s pack. The other Soyuz module has been damaged, and its landing parachute has been deployed as a result.
One Soyuz module for delivering ISS crew and returning them to Earth is missing, used by the ISS crew to evacuate the station. As they approach the ISS, it is clear that the ISS crew has evacuated due to the debris field causing damage.
En route to the ISS, the two discuss Stone’s life back home and the death of her young daughter in a schoolyard accident.
Kowalski is ever calm and efficient in the crisis, continuing to reassure Stone that they will both make it back to Earth safely. Kowalski sets the timer on his suit for 90 minutes, estimating the debris that destroyed Explorer will orbit the Earth and come back around in that amount of time. They then decide to use the thruster pack to make their way to the ISS, which is nearby in orbit. The two tether together, and make their way back to Explorer, where they discover the shuttle has been damaged beyond repair, and the rest of their crew are dead. Kowalski, who is wearing a thruster pack as part of his spacesuit navigates to Stone and retrieves her. Stone tumbles out of control after separating from the shuttle’s cargo bay arm. Nevertheless, both Kowalski and Stone continue to transmit “in the blind” to Mission Control, in the hopes that Mission Control can hear them, regardless of whether or not they receive messages from Mission Control. The debris continues to hit other satellites, causing a chain reaction of destruction until the satellites necessary for the two astronauts to communicate with Mission Control in Houston are also destroyed. During a spacewalk, debris from a satellite crashes into the space shuttle Explorer, destroying most of it and leaving them stranded in space with limited air. Ryan Stone is on her first space shuttle mission, accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, who is commanding his final expedition. It is scheduled for wide release in the United States and Canada on Octoand in the Philippines on October 3, 2013. Its North American premiere was three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. Gravity opened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in August 2013. was also involved as the male lead before leaving the project and being replaced by Clooney. The studio approached multiple actresses before casting Bullock in the female lead role. After the rights to the project were sold, the project found traction at Warner Bros. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts in a damaged Space Shuttle.Ĭuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the project at Universal Studios. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.Gravity is a 2013 3D space drama film co-written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring.