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Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity Pushed to 2013

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron adresses the audience during a meeting with young people in the sidelines of the XVIII Ibero American Summit in San Salvador on October 30, 2008. Leaders from Spain, Portugal and Latin America seek to present a joint statement at a meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders on the global financial crisis in Washington on November 15. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL ALVAREZ (Photo credit should read MIGUEL ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo: MIGUEL ALVAREZ/2008 AFP

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men had this one breathtaking one-take that seemed to last forever, or at least seven minutes. His next film, Gravity, has been said for two years to feature an uninterrupted twenty-minute opening. So why the hell is this thing stalled yet again, from November to sometime in 2013? Why did no one want to act in this [till Sandra Bullock! Yay!) and why isn’t everyone doing everything in their power to have it released tomorrow?

Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity Pushed to 2013