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âThe Midnight Skyâ (Netflix)
A lonely scientist. A mysterious global catastrophe. A group of astronauts stuck on another planet. George Clooney s âThe Midnight Skyâ boasts of visionary screenplay and top-notch cast. Based on Lily Brooks-Daltonâs acclaimed novel âGood Morning, Midnightâ, the post-apocalyptic film follows Augustine (Clooney) as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home.
The grandeur of the movie has caught many eyes, and if like us, you re wondering where the movie was filmed, here s all the scoop from behind-the-scene excerpts from the filmmakers provided to streaming giant Netflix. As sophisticated as some of the tools would be, the film was shot on the large-format Arri Alexa 65 camera with a significant amount of digital work - sometimes the solution to a problem is the most obvious one.
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve; no scenes in space, but bizarre-looking aliens play charades with Amy Adams),
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve again, playing around in Scott’s gloomy sandbox),
First Man (Damien Chazelle; not science-fiction but a biopic about the original spaceman counts), and last year,
Ad Astra (James Gray). This doesn’t even include thoughtful, small-scale science-fiction efforts from auteurs like Spike Jonze (2013’s
Her) or Claire Denis (2019’s
High Life), both of which question what it really means to be human. (I also chose to omit J.J. Abrams’s 2011 film
Super 8 he’s not a serious filmmaker.)
Captain Lens Flare aside, these movies are widely regarded as, if not a director’s
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Inside George Clooney’s ‘The Midnight Sky,’ From Felicity Jones’ Surprise Pregnancy to His ‘Santa Claus’ Beard
The actor-director even drew on his work on the ’90s medical drama “ER” for lessons in how to get the audience invested in his postapocalyptic sci-fi dramaSteve Pond | December 23, 2020 @ 6:15 AM Last Updated: December 23, 2020 @ 6:16 AM
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A movie that’s set partly in outer space and partly in the frozen expanses of the Arctic, “The Midnight Sky” is by far the biggest and most ambitious of the seven movies that George Clooney has directed. Based on the novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton, it takes place about 30 years in the future, when an unspecified calamity has threatened to make Earth unlivable and a team of astronauts is returning from a scouting mission at a potentially inhabitable moon of Jupiter.