Netflix has released a new trailer for George Clooney's sci-fi adventure epic, The Midnight Sky. Due out on the streaming platform on December 23, the movie is a "post-apocalyptic tale [that] follows Augustine (Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to Earth, where a mysterious global catastrophe has taken place." Check out the trailer below.

　　Clooney directs the film, which is an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's debut novel, 2017's Good Morning, Midnight. The novel's official website on publisher Penguin Random House notes that the book served as "the inspiration" for the film, so it's reasonable to expect many creative liberties were taken to diverge from the source material for dramatic purposes.

　　In addition to Clooney and Jones, the film's stars also include Kyle Chandler, David Oyelowo, and Demián Bichir. Mark L. Smith wrote the script, which bodes well, given that Smith co-wrote 2015's excellent epic The Revenant, which was also adapted from a novel.

　　Given comments Clooney made in a recent Vanity Fair interview, The Revenant may be a clue to understanding what to expect from The Midnight Sky. When asked about directing a movie that half takes place in space, and then also takes place on a desolate part of terra firm, he remarked: "It's a tricky thing because half of it's Gravity, and the other half of it's The Revenant. And they're not natural fits, so it was a constant balancing."

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　　Fortunately for The Midnight Sky, Clooney explains, while co-starring in 2013's Gravity, he paid close attention to how that movie was shot. "One of the things I learned from working with [director] Alfonso [Cuarón] 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." Clooney joked that he did his best to make sure the way The Midnight Sky was shot won't "make everybody sick."

　　Netflix has released a new trailer for George Clooney's sci-fi adventure epic, The Midnight Sky. Due out on the streaming platform on December 23, the movie is a "post-apocalyptic tale [that] follows Augustine (Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to Earth, where a mysterious global catastrophe has taken place." Check out the trailer below

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