Probably not but given the familiarity of the rest of the movie anything is possible.) Netflix would distribute, with filming set to begin in October. [5] Felicity Jones was added to the cast in July. Scientist Augustine Lofthouse has devoted his life work to finding habitable planets where humanity can expand. [9][10] Tiffany Boone and Caoilinn Springall were added in October. [11] In November 2019, Demián Bichir joined the cast of the film. After a kitchen fire he finds a young girl hiding, who doesn’t speak. The girl communicates by drawing and tells him her name is Iris. The Midnight Sky is a 2020 American science fiction film directed by George Clooney, based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton.It stars Clooney as a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe. [1] Scenes set on Earth and involving Clooney were shot before the end of 2019, while scenes set in space were shot after the production's Christmas break.[7]. Worst of all, Clooney can’t stick with a thread long enough to build tension or drama. He tries to contact the other evacuees to get someone to pick her up, but they are all out of range. It looks good. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association. The scenes set in space are expertly designed, and shot well by Martin Ruhe, but they feel entirely devoid of human emotion (until the final act manipulatively calls for it). After a pregnancy scare, Jean leaves him because of his obsession with work and inability to bond with other human beings. It’s as hollow as can be. Arriving at the base, he manages to make contact with Aether, but the crew is interrupted by an asteroid field that damages the ship's radar and communication systems. In her final communication, Sully tells Lofthouse that he was one of the reasons why she joined NASA. It sounds great. [12] Sophie Rundle, Ethan Peck, Tim Russ and Miriam Shor were announced as being added in January 2020. He’s a welcome presence in his first on-screen performance since 2016, but Clooney’s direction is as a cold as the landscape his character travels, never once finding anything that feels organic or character-driven. The website's critics consensus states, "The Midnight Sky lacks the dramatic heft to match its narrative scale, but its flaws are often balanced by thoughtful themes and a poignant performance from director-star George Clooney. “The Midnight Sky” cuts between Iris and Augustine’s harrowing journey and the return voyage of the shuttle, led by a pregnant Sully Rembshire (Felicity Jones). In South Korea, the film opened 4th, grossing $24,608 from 218 theaters with an average of $112 per screen. When asked how he ended up at the base he contacted Aether from, he says he thought he might be able to help someone, hinting that the reason that he kept track of Aether's mission was not just because he discovered the moon it went to, but also because he knew Sully was his daughter and that she was a part of that mission. ‘The Midnight Sky’: How George Clooney’s VFX Team Created the Horrifying, Beautiful Ballet of Blood. Jayme Langford 231. [14][15] The scene that takes place in a blizzard was filmed in 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) winds with temperatures at 40 °F below zero (–40 °C). The pace, paradoxically, can be awfully slow, but it may seem less so to home viewers with plenty of time and patience; the metabolic rate of motion pictures will be changing in the streaming era, to an extent we can't foresee. Sanchez, who saw Maya as a second daughter, decides to accompany him and bury her body. "[24] According to Metacritic, which sampled 42 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, the film received "mixed or average reviews". (Although the film doesn’t have nearly enough quiet moments, thanks in part to an aggressive score by Alexandre Desplat.) For most of the film, Sully and her crew have no idea what’s happening back on Earth, so as they navigate the dangers of space in an effort to return to a home that has been destroyed. [22], The Midnight Sky received some praise for its "ambition and emotional tone," though was compared unfavorably to other science fiction films. Still, he decides to use one of the two re-entry vehicles to go back to Earth, hoping to find his family who may have been evacuated to temporary safety. [17][18] It was the most-watched film on Netflix over its first five days. Thirty years later, in 2049, nuclear war has wiped out most of the Earth's population and left the surface contaminated with ionizing radiation. We don’t feel Augustine’s commitment or drive because we’re constantly jumping to the tedious characters on the Aether or, much worse, to flashbacks that serve no emotional or character purpose until a final-act twist is revealed. Whenever 18-year-old Maya Lin walked through Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda, she couldn’t resist passing her fingers over the marble walls engraved with the … Some of the space action stuff works, including a big “Gravity”-inspired space repair sequence that probably will be more effective in theaters than for people who watch Netflix on their phone. Jennifer Love 232. If you aren’t able to see Venus on this night due to its placement in the sky (low over the western horizon at its brightest moment), it will still appear bright on the nights surrounding this date. The 2019-built Sky Princess cruise ship is the 4th Royal-class vessel in the Princess Cruises fleet, together with the fleet mates Royal Princess (2013), Regal Princess (2014), Majestic Princess (2017), Enchanted Princess (2020) and Discovery Princess (2021). There’s something so sterile and antiseptic about the space half of this film that it can’t maintain viewer interest or sympathy beyond a filmmaking exercise. In theaters Friday, and available on Netflix on December 23. [13], Filming began on October 21, 2019 in England, and wrapped in Iceland on February 7, 2020. Title Replies Views Last Post ; Welcome to Midnight Castle forum 1 2 3... 399 400 401 . [3] At the 93rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects.[4]. Commander Adewole, conduct a spacewalk with their flight engineer Maya. Karlie Montana 235. It’s like Clooney the director was so concerned about adequately conveying the details of each part of his story that he never broke down the meaning of them or the characters involved. There are hints of the movie that could have been. [7][8] Kyle Chandler and David Oyelowo joined the cast in August. He decides to stay behind after his station evacuates because of a planetary crisis. Before heading out into the cold unprotected to die, Lofthouse tells Sully he's proud to have finally met her and Sully describes K-23 to him. To fix the damage, pregnant mission specialist Sully and her partner, Commander Adewole, conduct a spacewalk with their flight engineer Maya. The crew has lost contact with Earth, but do not know why. No Malice Film Contest Extends its Deadline to May 31st, Amazon’s Them is a Harrowing, Frustrating American Horror Story, In Memory of Roger Ebert: Films About Connection, 12th Annual AAFCA Awards to be Held April 7th. The film was announced in June 2019, with George Clooney directing and starring. Today's naps table from the best tipsters in horse racing with Sky Sports Ted Cruz led a group of Republican senators on a late night march along the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border to hunt for migrants in a trip Democrats are blasting as a 'political stunt.' One more vessel of the same class will be constructed for Princess, with a scheduled launch in 2022. It’s getting scary. "[28] Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com reviewed the film more harshly and gave it two stars, concluding, "The heart of this movie just isn't there. The Midnight Sky è un film del 2020 diretto e interpretato da George Clooney.. La pellicola fantascientifica, ambientata in un futuro post apocalittico, è l'adattamento cinematografico del romanzo del 2016 La distanza tra le stelle (Good Morning, Midnight) scritto da Lily Brooks-Dalton ed ha come protagonisti George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir e David Oyelowo He searches the base's computer system for active crewed space missions to warn about the situation on Earth, and finds only one: the interplanetary craft Aether, returning from an exploration of Jupiter's habitable moon K-23, which Lofthouse discovered. Lindsay Marie 241. The latest travel information, deals, guides and reviews from USA TODAY Travel. Her partner Tom (David Oyelowo) is the Commander of the ship, which also includes Maya (Tiffany Boone), Sanchez (Demian Bichir), and Mitchell (Kyle Chandler). It stars Clooney as a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe. Luciana 228. Boroka Borres 229. It's as weightless as space. The first recorded use of cyan blue ("cyan blue" was the name used for the color "cyan" in the 19th century) as a color name was in 1879. Sully reaches out to Lofthouse, who tells her not to return to Earth, but go back to K-23 and start a new life there. Lofthouse refuses to join the evacuation of his Arctic base, knowing he hasn't got long to live due to an unidentified serious illness requiring hemodialysis. Jasmine Byrne 239. Brianna Love 236. Monique Alexander 226. The film had a limited theatrical release on December 11, 2020, and was released digitally on December 23. He loses his dialysis equipment, condemning him to die soon. [16] For his role, Clooney lost 25 pounds (~11.5 kg). Clooney the director seems to almost be fighting back against potential viewer investment, which makes the final act’s melodrama and twists feel all the more manipulative. "[27], The Wall Street Journal reviewer Joe Morganstern gave the film a warm review, but added: "The film isn't perfect. Several years later, Lofthouse encounters her again and she tells him that they have a daughter, whom he chooses not to meet. 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All of the other films mentioned in this review that clearly inspired this one never lost their characters. Most of the time, “The Midnight Sky” drifts like space debris between its three settings—shuttle, Arctic, flashbacks—instead of feeling like it's building momentum. [21], In the Netherlands, the film ranked 17th in its first weekend, grossing $22,070 from 14 theaters with an average of $1,576 per theater. [20] In March 2021, Variety reported the film was the most-watched among Netflix's Oscar-nominated titles, and assigned it an "audience appeal score" of 98 out 100. It has no oxygen and no heartbeat. "[26] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B and described it as "a dystopian drama whose fluctuating tone—grim, with flickers of hopeful sentiment—feels almost comfortingly familiar, if a little on the nose for 2020. Maya Gates 225. Lucie Theodorova 233. The film was shot with Arri Alexa 65 cameras (the digital equivalent of 65mm film) with the intent of screening it in IMAX theatres. Also is that a “Blade Runner 2049” reference? Angelina Valentine 238. The recipe here is a base of “Gravity” (which Clooney himself has referenced as an influence, along with “The Revenant”), a bit of “The Road,” a dash of “Interstellar,” a shot of “Ad Astra,” a scoop of “The Martian,” and a pinch of “Children of Men” for flavor. Not too many details are given, but Brooks-Dalton, writer Mark L. Smith, and Clooney are clearly suggesting our planet doesn’t have much time left, setting a film about climate catastrophe in 2049. The Midnight Sky (2020) Plot. Some shooting also took place at La Palma, in the Canary Islands. [19] The film remained in the top 10 for its first 12 days of release. Just being able to pick apart these references doesn’t inherently make “The Midnight Sky” a misfire, but what’s startling is how little is left to chew on after considering the better films brought back to memory by these superficial callbacks. The Midnight Sky began a limited theatrical release on December 11, 2020, before being released on Netflix on December 18. Augustine discovers that there’s a space shuttle named Aether on its way to a home that isn’t habitable anymore, and so he makes it his mission to warn them to turn around and go back to the planet they were already scouting to take the future of the human race. The narrative piles crisis upon crisis, from a fat fire in the observatory kitchen to spectacular repair efforts in space and a startling sequence that involves droplets of blood. The problem is that his signal isn’t strong enough to communicate with the Aether before it’s too late, and so he has to traverse the Arctic to get to a stronger one. [23] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 51% of 241 reviews of the film were positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10. Clooney opted to rewrite her character as pregnant versus using a body double. Netflix later revealed that the film was seen by 72 million households during its first week. Her partner Tom (David Oyelowo) is the Commander of the ship, which also includes Maya (Tiffany Boone), Sanchez (Demian Bichir), and Mitchell (Kyle Chandler). Lofthouse says he already knew her name, making it clear that the young Iris he saw was a hallucination. Sure, she’s mostly a device to give his character something greater to fight for, but they have a silent relationship that works. She thanks him, telling him her mother Jean knew him, as he had given her a moon rock, and that her full name is Iris Sullivan. [6] Jones became pregnant sometime after having been cast. (Remember when apocalyptic movies were further in the future? “The Midnight Sky” cuts between Iris and Augustine’s harrowing journey and the return voyage of the shuttle, led by a pregnant Sully Rembshire (Felicity Jones). Lofthouse finds his antenna is too weak to contact them. Clooney develops a quick and effective chemistry with Springall. He meets Jean Sullivan after giving a presentation at a gala and the two form a romantic relationship. Brian Tallerico is the Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this never occurred. Aether's pilot, Tom Mitchell, refuses, but upon discovering his wife's final words and seeing the state of Earth's atmosphere, understands that it is in the crew's best interests to go back to Jupiter's moon. They fix the comms and radar but are caught in the middle of a second asteroid strike that fatally injures Maya. He grows fond of her and takes her with him on a snowmobile to another base farther north, which has a larger, more powerful antenna. The stuff in the Arctic is more effective and admittedly technically impressive, although the plot begins to make less and less sense—a scene in which Augustine crashes through ice and would almost certainly die from the hypothermia or shock breaks any sense of realism that had been tenuously achieved. He finds he is experiencing mental blackouts. Melissa Mendiny 230. Lexxi Tyler 227. Sully and Adewole are left to return to K-23 using a course provided to them by Lofthouse to give humanity a second start. The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades.It is one of the subtractive primary colors- cyan, magenta, and yellow.. This make it the third brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon by a lot (sometimes Jupiter overtakes Venus in its “new” phase). 8,002: 1,233,377 Caylian Curtis 234. A dying man trudges across a dying planet in George Clooney’s ambitious sci-fi epic for Netflix, “The Midnight Sky.” Based on the book by Lily Brooks-Dalton, this is a piece that almost feels designed by a screenwriting algorithm informed by some of the top genre films of the last couple decades. The Midnight Sky is a 2020 American science fiction film directed by George Clooney, based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Veronique Vega 240. Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, and Caoilinn Springall also star. And he has to do so accompanied by a mute girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall), who happened to be left behind during the evacuation. It’s as weightless as space. Clooney plays the incredibly named Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist at the end of the world. 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