Ever since Angelina Jolie climbed in an escape pod and launched herself away from Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi survival thriller GRAVITY, the project has been looking for a suitable leading lady to drift among the stars with Robert Downey Jr.
Heat Vision says that Downey’s future fellow Avenger Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively (apparently now A-list, somehow) tested for the part of a woman attempting to make her way back to Earth after a satellite crash sets off a chain reaction that leaves her stranded in orbit. RDJ will play handsome debris.
The 3D Warner Bros. project is a CG-heavy zero-G spectacle that will purportedly feature more of Cuaron’s stylish and fluid visuals and extended (and/or simulated) single-take shots. Marion Cotillard (INCEPTION) also previously tested for the lead role.
If Lively doesn’t get the part, at least she still has her own big-budget spaceman movie — she’s the squeeze of test pilot/intergalactic protector Hal Jordan in next year’s GREEN LANTERN (starring Scarlett’s hubby Ryan Reynolds).
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