One of the most intense and applaud-worthy clips that premiered at Comic-Con this past weekend was shown during the Warner Bros. panel in Hall H, or more specifically from the portion focusing on Alfonso Cuaron’s Sci-fi thriller Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
The clip is called “Detached” and represents the first “oh shit” moment in the film when debris from a satellite smashes into the space shuttle and space station that Clooney and Bullock’s characters are in the process of taking a space walk from. It’s not the nature of the space shuttle and station destruction that provides the thrills. It’s what comes next.
As Bullock’s character spins around in space while still attached to a space arm, Clooney begs her to detach or else she’s a goner. She struggles to do so but eventually does, sending her hurtling off into the blackness of space.
What’s amazing about this “Detached” sequence is that Cuaron filmed it in a single take. Not just any single take; one that moves the camera around, attaches and detaches it from objects, and generally creates an incredibly impressive piece of motion picture art that is as beautiful as it is terrifying for the shuttle’s crew experiencing the event.
Apparently Warner Bros. dubbed sound effects onto this clip when it debuted at Comic-Con. I was not in attendance so I cannot speak to what that sounded like. This public clip lacks any collision sounds that I can make out so it’s probably the “pure” version that we will see in the finished film.
Gravity premieres in Venice, then will make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. For the rest of us, the space thriller will makes its cinematic debut on October 4.
Enjoy the Gravity Comic-Con clip below.
