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Suburbicon, was universally panned on its 2017 release, but the actor-turned-director is now back with
The Midnight Sky, a deeply moving post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama in which he also stars. Adapted from Lily Brooks-Dalton’s best-selling 2016 novel,
Goo
d Morning, Midnight, it follows a survivor of an apocalyptic event attempting to salvage what is left of humanity.
It is set in 2049 in the wake of an unspecified global catastrophe that has rendered the planet largely uninhabitable. Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is the sole resident at an Arctic circle research facility, trying to beam signals to a spaceship that is returning home after seeking out new worlds. The ship’s oblivious crew, desperate to be reunited with their loved ones, are puzzled when they fail to communicate with Earth. As their journey proceeds, pregnant Sully Rembshire (Felicity Jones) and Commander Gordon Adewole (David Oyelowo), the unborn child’s father, encounter further obstacles. There is
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Staring into the void
Actor-director George Clooney opens up about post-apocalyptic flick The Midnight Sky and the concept of family and mortality
published : 15 Dec 2020 at 04:00
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George Clooney is probably best-known to Hollywood fans as a true screen icon, Oscar-winning actor, and the heartthrob of every woman s dreams. However, it may surprise some to learn that the man has also cultivated himself a directing career and that he has been behind the camera for nearly 20 years from his debut in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002), historical drama Good Night, And Good Luck (2005), political thriller The Ides Of March (2011), to his most recent collaboration with the Coen Brothers in Suburbicon (2017).
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The Midnight Sky review – flawed but moving apocalyptic sci-fi
George Clooney directs and stars, as a scientist with a grim warning
by Demetrios MatheouThursday, 10 December 2020
The last time George Clooney was in a space movie,
Gravity, he and Sandra Bullock were marooned above Earth and desperate to get home.
The Midnight Sky has the opposite dynamic: here Clooney is Earthbound, urgently trying to warn incomers to stay the hell away. As science-fiction premises go, it feels rather apt.
The last time George Clooney was in a space movie,