No./1 Why George Clooney went back to space
THE LAST TIME George Clooney went to space, it didn’t go so well for him. In Alfonso Cuarón’s , he ended up floating into an endless void; earlier in Steven Soderbergh’s , he found himself in a metaphysical one. But somehow, despite all that, he’s been tempted back. For his seventh film behind the camera, Clooney adapts the acclaimed 2016 novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton, which imagines a mysterious mass-extinction event in the near-future, told from two perspectives: those of Augustine (played in the film by Clooney), a grizzled astronomer stranded at an Arctic observatory; and Sully (played by Felicity Jones), an astronaut whose ship is stranded in space when Mission Control stop responding. Speaking from his home in Los Angeles, while putting finishing touches to the
