SHARE George Clooney has been in two of the great Hollywood sci-fi films of the 21st century. Steven Soderbergh’s daring remake of Solaris came in 2002, followed by 2013's brilliant Gravity, a film that truly blasts viewers into space with its stomach-flipping camera work. As David Oyelowo, Clooney’s co-star in his new Netflix-backed post-apocalyptic film, The Midnight Sky, claims: “George is basically to space movies what De Niro is to gangster movies.” However, after two trips beyond the stratosphere, Clooney has stayed put on Earth here. In The Midnight Sky, he plays Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist living alone in an observatory in the Arctic Circle after the planet suffered a major environmental catastrophe.