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George Clooney has an urgent mes­sage in The Mid­night Sky trailer

27 Oct 2020

Words by Charles Bramesco

Two older men standing near a window, one wearing a plaid shirt and holding a mug, the other in a dark jacket holding a cup.
Two older men standing near a window, one wearing a plaid shirt and holding a mug, the other in a dark jacket holding a cup.
As a sci­en­tist seclud­ed in Antarc­ti­ca, he must warn return­ing astro­nauts of the cat­a­stro­phes that have befall­en Earth.

No bet­ter time than the present for a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic thriller, as we peo­ple of Earth con­tend with the ongo­ing lurch into obliv­ion that is dai­ly life out here in the real world. The log­line of The Mid­night Sky almost sounds like a joke, in its rel­a­tive­ly close prox­im­i­ty to the cur­rent state of affairs, as the remain­ing denizens of the plan­et warn those on an inter­stel­lar get­away that return­ing may not be worth it.

That’s the long and short of the upcom­ing release from Net­flix, pre­viewed for the first time today in a new trail­er. George Clooney’s lat­est direc­to­r­i­al out­ing imag­ines a world in decid­ed­ly direr straits than our own, rocked to its core by a cat­a­clysm left a mys­tery by the clip below, which is to say that things could still tech­ni­cal­ly get worse for us.

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Clooney also stars as one of the last human souls alive, hav­ing seclud­ed him­self in a secure research facil­i­ty in Antarc­ti­ca. As such, it falls to him to car­ry a vital mes­sage ward­ing off a group of astro­nauts (includ­ing Felic­i­ty Jones) prepar­ing to return to the home they don’t real­ize has been rav­aged by… something.

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Close-up of a person in a spacesuit helmet, with a contemplative expression.

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