Natalie Portman Offered to Carry Alfonso Cuaron's 'Gravity'
September 08, 2010

The 'Black Swan' actress reportedly has 'fielded an offer' from Warner Bros. to take the lead role in the drama which was previously projected to be an Angelina Jolie-starring film.
The coveted role in "Gravity" which was turned down by Angelina Jolie could belong to Natalie Portman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the "Brothers" star is offered to portray the main female character in the upcoming Alfonso Cuaron-directed flick.
Portman recently received praises for her performance in "Black Swan" which has just been premiered at Venice Film Festival as well as Telluride Film Festival. The 29-year-old beauty also stars in "Thor" which will be debuted in the U.S. on May 6, 2011.
The lead role in "Gravity" has become the highly sought one but Jolie, who was offered the part twice, decided to pass it. Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were previously said as the frontrunners and Rachel Weisz has also been reported as a candidate to tackle the job.
Robert Downey Jr. is attached to star in "Gravity" to portray a spaceman. The movie sees a story of a female astronaut and her team leader, portrayed by Downey Jr., on a remote space station as the other team members have got wiped out by a debris field from an exploding satellite. The film will follow the female heroine as she attempts to return home to her child.
Beside set to serve behind the lens, Alfonso Cuaron also writes the script for the film along with Jonas Cuaron. Principal photography may take place in 2011 after Downey Jr. wraps "Sherlock Holmes 2".

Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. will be re-teaming for Gravity – a sci-fi thriller from Children of Men director, Alfonso Cuaron.

It looks as though moviegoers won’t have to wait until The Avengers is released to see Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. reunited on film. The Iron Man 2 costars are in line to play the leads in director Alfonso Cuaron’s “race from space” thriller, Gravity.
Johansson has reportedly made a verbal commitment to star in Gravity, a project which Downey became associated with back in May.  The Lost in Translation star will take on the role that Angelina Jolie was at one point under consideration to play.
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The film revolves around a group of U.S. astronauts – led by a medical engineer (Johansson) and “a talkative ‘mile-a-minute’ veteran” (Downey, presumably) – who are on a mission to fix the Hubble telescope. Events take a turn for the dangerous when several Russian satellites begin to implode and force the U.S. team to race back to Earth in order to survive the resulting avalanche of debris.
Cuaron’s Children of Men was an intelligent, white-knuckle, thrill ride of a sci-fi film – and Gravity looks to amp up the thrills something fierce. The 3D project will reportedly be very FX heavy, with possibly 60% of the film featuring CG imagery. Fans of Cuaron’s preference for long takes will be pleased to hear that the opening shot of Gravity alone is expected to be over 20 minutes in duration.
Iron Man 2 didn’t exactly require Johansson to flex her acting muscles much, and she only shared a few moments of screen time with Downey, so it will be interesting to see what kind of dynamic the two strike as professionals working together in order to survive in Gravity.

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After two whirlwind days with Robert Downey Jr. in Los Angeles, Walter Kirn discovers the greatest actor of his generation is a hardass, a flake, a superstar — anything you want him to be. The Up in the Air author profiles the Iron Man 2 superstar in Rolling Stone's new issue, on sale at newsstands today — and available for All Access readers right now.
During an introspective day on the beach where Kirn and Downey play word association (and coin the term "vaginal parfait"), the actor opens up about his opposition to drug legalization, his interest in science and conspiracy and his current state of mind, which he describes as "the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals." During the pair's second afternoon together, Downey gets gritty, speaking out about the downward spiral that led to his ultimate fall: his incarceration from 1999-2000.
Downey recounts how he'd partied with "the son of a local phenom," smoking black-tar heroin on a two-day bender, just before getting busted for driving with drugs and guns in his possession. He returned home from jail and started searching for "that great coke" he knew he'd stashed somewhere in the house.
"And here I was needing to anesthetize like never before. The wife has moved out, the kid's gone, my life is a fucking babyshambles, and I suddenly make the neuropathic connection that there's nowhere the coke can be but the garbage, and I fucking dig in the thing and there it is, and it's so fucking pure and so clean and there I am, in my own kitchen, cooking up some rock — no Vicodin, no Valium, nothing to take the edge off, barely a trace of fucking Absolut Citron left in the fridge, and I just go, 'This is as good as it gets right now.' I just go, 'Bam!,' triumph of the spirit. And the next thing that happens, I'm in custody within two weeks for even stranger reasons, and the phone rings, and it's the phenom's son and he goes, 'Hey, dude, do you have any more of that opium?' I, of course, told him it was opium. Never call it heroin, it's very taboo. But this stuff, this Mexican sludge, just grabbed you by the fucking heartstrings and tore me apart. All those years of snorting coke, and then I accidentally get involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together. Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeful state is intervention.

By  Rolling Stone, Apr 28