When a few days after the release of Clash Of The Titans, Warner said they wanted to make a sequel, director Louis Leterrier immediately said he wasn’t going to direct it. While some wondered whether this meant he’d had a bad time making the movie, others suspected he was holding onto the slim hope he’d get his dream project, The Avengers.
However that’s gone to Joss Whedon, and so if Pajiba is to be believed, he’s now tentatively attached to what they describe as ‘the dumbest project ever’. The film is called Gravity (and shouldn’t be confused with the Alfonso Cuaron film of the same name), and is being pitched as a disaster film that’s like The Day After Tomorrow meets Taken. The plot is apparently about a father who has to search for his lost child as the world stops spinning and Earth begins to lose its gravity.
I’m really, really hoping there’s more to it than that, because otherwise scientists are going to throw a hissy fit, not least because the Earth’s spin doesn’t cause gravity, and if the force was switching off, people would have more to worry about than finding a lost child, as the entire planet would be thrown out of orbit of the sun and hurtle into the far reaches of space. You can’t switch off gravity and then just have people float about a little bit. Admittedly disaster movies don’t have to be sensible, but this idea looks set to rival The Core for sheer stupidity.
The only hope is that it’s somehow meant to be taken more metaphorically than literally, and the lack of gravity will represent the world becoming detached from its moorings. However as it’s from the director of the Transporter films, I doubt intelligence will be high on the agenda.
It’s early days yet, but the project is apparently set up at Universal and Mark Gordon Productions, with Bourne writer George Nolfi producing.