Yahoo News Netflix release images of George Clooney's post-apocalyptic drama The Midnight Sky
Netflix has released first-look images from George Clooney's anticipated post-apocalyptic space drama The Midnight Sky.
Clooney stars in and directs the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's acclaimed 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, co-starring Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir and Tiffany Boone.
The timely drama follows a NASA crew in 2049 who discover a habitable moon around Jupiter. As they emerge from a communications blackout however, they learn that Earth has suffered a global catastrophe. Clooney plays a lonely scientist located in the Artic named Augustine who desperately races to stop Sully (Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning to Earth.
One image features a heavily bearded Clooney starring pensively out of a window, and another sees him completely clean-shaven as he directs Selma's Oyelowo and Hunters actress Boone.
Jones appears wearing a spacesuit in one picture, and looking sombre as she rests her head on Oyelowo's shoulders in another image.
The Revenant writer Mark L. Smith has adapted the film, which has also been produced by Clooney. The drama will feature one big deviation from the novel, as the plot has included Jones' recent real-life pregnancy. The Star Wars actress recently welcomed her first child with husband Charles Guard.
Speaking recently about making the film before the Coronavirus pandemic took hold, the Oscar-winner told Vanity Fair: "There wasn't the pandemic, and we hadn't set the whole West Coast on fire. I mean, the picture we show of Earth [in the movie] doesn't look that much different than the satellite pictures of the West Coast right now.
"It's science fiction, which unfortunately is less fictional as we move through the days."
While they originally planned to shoot with a body double, Clooney revealed the challenges it presented.
"We did that for about a week, and then [Jones] felt she was trying so hard not to look like she was putting on baby weight and stuff," the star explained.
"And I finally just said, 'You know what? You're pregnant. People have sex, and you got pregnant. And we're going to just build it into it.'"
The Midnight Sky will launch on Netflix in December.
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