Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ is one of the most anticipated releases not involving a franchise right now, and many people (myself included) have written of it being a potential Oscar contender. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, it’s a high profile project and November 21st couldn’t come soon enough for us. Well, Deadline reported here (and I confirmed via Box Office Mojo) that the film has been pushed out of 2012 entirely to an as of now unspecified 2013 release date, so the wait has just gotten longer. This is all likely due to making sure the visual effects are up to snuff, but after the jump I’ll get into whether or not this is reason to panic. Essentially, mostly this is bad in the sense that we’d wanted to see Cuarón’s latest film sooner, rather than later…
The key to this all will be to see where the film winds up in 2013. If it’s an early year release, then maybe it’s time to lessen expectations. If it’s a summer release, then perhaps it could go either way (though that suggests an even more epic profile than we may be expecting now), but if this is a full year delay to make sure the project is as good as it can be…then everybody wins! My guess is that this is what the case will be, but we won’t know just yet. Nobody panic though, Cuarón and Warner Brothers are hopefully just worrying about quality, nothing more and nothing less. If that’s the case, then I’m fully prepared to wait another 15 months or more if that’s what it takes.
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Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, delays, George Clooney, Gravity, Release date changes, sandra bullock
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I wonder what other contenders might wind up getting bumped from 2012…
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
I’m confident this will be a great film, but I was hoping that this (along with a good many other films I’m stoked for) would make 2012 a true year to beat for film–like how many film buffs view 1939.
JamDenTel(Quote) (Reply)
Fair enough…perhaps 2013 will now be that year.
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
Oh well. From this far out, 2013 looks like it could use a few more high-profile original films. Right now, it looks like a who’s-who of remakes, re-releases, sequels, prequels, and who-knows-what-quels. Even Pixar is releasing another sequel, along with an obligatory 3D re-release.
Regardless, from what I know about Gravity so far, I’m sure it will be good whether its released this year or next.
Steve Glansberg(Quote) (Reply)
Agreed.
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
please replace bullock with portman!!
deadspotter(Quote) (Reply)
The film has already been shot, so no luck there…
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
Hopefully this won’t be like it was with The Soloist with Robert Downey Jr. It looked like an Oscar contender scheduled for release at the end of November and then pushed to April instead and ended up not doing well in the end.
Who knows though. Hopefully you’re right about them just updating the effects and taking their times to make sure they have the perfect movie. If it does get an early release (which I hope not), again who knows. We could have another Tree of Life if they decide to enter it into Cannes or something to get a big push off to success.
Ryman Lloyd(Quote) (Reply)
The less I have to think about The Soloist, the better…
Everything I’ve heard is that this is just to make sure perfection is achieved with the effects, but who knows for sure, indeed.
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)