The Midnight Sky (2020)

The Midnight Sky (2020)
Director: George Clooney
==Synopsis==
Sometime in 2049 after cataclysmic radioactive meltdown devastates the planet a dying scientist does what he can to ensure that the crews of various space missions are able to find a new livable planet to call home.
==Male Deaths==
*George Clooney [Dr. Augustine Lofthouse] 
*Kyle Chandler [Tom Mitchell] (implied)
*Demián Bichir [Sanchez] (implied)
==Female Deaths==
*Tiffany Boone [Maya Lawrence]
*Sophie Rundle [Jean]
*Caoilinn Springall [Iris]
==Gallery==
==Posters==
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==Trivia==
# For the sequence where Augustine (George Clooney) and the little girl Caoilinn Springall are separated, the production filmed during an actual snowstorm in Iceland where temperatures were -40 degrees. Because it was so cold and actor-director Clooney was not wearing goggles, they could only shoot one-minute takes before he had to take shelter and use a hair dryer to thaw his eyelashes.
# Actor/director George Clooney bills this project as Gravity (2013) meets The Revenant (2015), noting, "They're not natural fits, so it was a constant balancing act." The fact Midnight Sky (2020) would resemble Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning adventure epic The Revenant (2015) is not by accident, as the project was written by The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith. The Revenant part of the script kicks in during the film when Augustine (played by Clooney) and the girl are forced "to venture through the increasingly toxic air and melting arctic landscape to reach an observatory that has a communications array powerful enough to reach the starship." The astronauts, meanwhile, set out on their own adventure while taking a shortcut on their journey to Earth. Working on Gravity prepared Clooney for the challenges of directing a space epic. "One of the things that I learned from working with Alfonso about space is, once you're in the antigravity kind of world, there is no north and south or east or west, because it doesn't exist in space. Up isn't up, and down isn't down," Clooney said. "So the camera can be upside down, characters can be upside down, and it's hard to do, because you're constantly rotating the camera, and hoping you're not doing it so much you make everybody sick. Alfonso did it just beautifully."
# George Clooney lost 30 lbs and was hospitalized with pancreatitis for his role as an astronaut with cancer 4 days into filming The Midnight Sky.
# Good Morning, Midnight is also the title of a Jean Rhys book.
# This is George Clooney's first film role since Money Monster (2016).
# This is the second collaboration between George Clooney and Kyle Chandler after the Hulu series Catch 22.
# At approximately 39 minutes, the B&W film they are watching is 1959's On the Beach, a movie about the end of the world starring Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck; Peck's real life grandson, Ethan Peck, plays Augustine's (George Clooney's) younger self.
# Sully's pregnancy was the result of Felicity Jones getting pregnant in real life.
# Tim Russ and Ethan Peck are both veterans of Star Trek; Russ played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) while Peck portrays a young Spock on Star Trek: Discovery (2017).
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