Call it premature “Gravity”? Or something is slightly amiss or out of synch.
Yesterday it was reported that Angelina Jolie had signed onto Alfonso Cuarón’s new sci-fi thriller called, “Gravity” instead of doing a sequel for “Wanted.”
Cuarón back in the game with a sci-fi thriller and Angelina Jolie? Hell yes, we’re there and excited, it’s been too long since Cuarón made a film (2006’s dystopian picture “Children of Men,” though he was one of the directors on the 2007 doc, “The Shock Doctrine,” not to be confused with the Michael Winterbottom 2009 documentary of the same name).
But EW is reporting something else. That something else being that Jolie passed on the “Gravity” project. And it gets even more confusing from there. “Gravity” was once a Universal project and then was reportedly picked up in turnaround by Warner Bros. Fine, easy to make sense of.
But no one at Warner Bros. can actually confirm that’s actually the case. The only thing that seems to be crystal clear? Angelina Jolie will not be making a “Wanted 2” film. Stay tuned, we’re sure more will come to light soon enough, but if “Gravity” is not happening, we’ll definitely be disappointed.
Jolie is currently in Venice with Johnny Depp and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (“The Lives of Others”) shooting the spy romance film, “The Tourist” (which, ironically, had Cuarón’s name attached to it at one point).