Robert Downey Jr. Gets Pulled By Alfonso Cuaron's GRAVITY

Last month when Angelina Jolie decided to exit WANTED 2, the assumption was that it because she wanted to do GRAVITY to be directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children Of Men). But then a couple of days after that info came in that said Jolie was not doing GRAVITY either. Now Deadline New York reported Robert Downey Jr. is in final talks to star…

I don’t know how much of the storyline had to be adjusted now that RDJ is involved instead of Jolie because previously we were informed that GRAVITY was more or less like Moon starring Sam Rockwell, which would have Jolie carry the movie most of the time all by herself, “playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter.” Previously housed at Universal, GRAVITY was once put in a turnaround because they think it was “artistically challenging”. GRAVITY will Now Warner Bros. and producer David Heyman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Legendary Pictures are developing the project.

Written by Cuaron and his son Jonas, the storyline now goes like this..”Downey will play the leader of a team posted at a remote space station. While he and a female colleague are traveling outside the space station, the other team members are decimated by debris from an exploded satellite.”
No word yet on who will play that female colleague. RDJ agreed to this for the opportunity to work with Cuaron. GRAVITY will start filming in London this summer before RDJ works on SHERLOCK HOLMES 2.