George Clooney is a grizzled Arctic astronomer at The Midnight Sky trailer

Netflix has bet heavily this season on high-profile feature movies starring A-list ability: original using Chris Hemsworth at Extraction, after which with Oscar-winning celebrity Charlize Theron at The Old Guard. This wager has mostly paid off. The streaming system has exploited a second Oscar winner, George Clooney, to star and direct from the postwar science fiction movie The Midnight Sky. It is adapted from the critically acclaimed 2016 introduction book, Good Morning, Midnight, by Lily Brooks-Dalton, that is in comparison with Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora along with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. The official trailer only dropped, and it is giving us a few powerful Off vibes (that, alas, was pinpointed by Netflix after only 1 year ).

In the book, an excellent astronomer called Augustine is posted into the Arctic, scanning the night skies for clues regarding the birth of the world. Then a mysterious international apocalypse happens, prompting each of his fellow scientists. However, Augustine stays behind, devoted to continuing his study, also as the airwaves move quiet. A group of astronauts aboard the spaceship Aether is set to return to Earth following a mission to Jupiter. On board is Sully, who sacrificed her marriage and left her daughter behind to be able to grow into one of the very first people to journey up to now in our Solar System. The astronauts don’t know about the tragedy which has befallen Earth, and it drops to Augustine to frighten them to not return.

Snow is white, distance is shameful

Clooney’s movie adaptation appears like it is going to hew closely to the publication. Per the official assumption:”This short narrative follows Augustine (Clooney, Syriana,” Argo), a lonely scientist at the Arctic, since he races to prevent Sully (Felicity Jones, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) along with her fellow astronauts from coming home to some mysterious international tragedy.”