An apocalyptic sci-fi drama directed and directed by George Clooney, Netflix’s “The Midnight Sky” offers an insight into the possible future where unpredictable destruction makes the earth desolate.
In the trailer released on Tuesday, Clooney’s character is looking for a way to warn other survivors to return to Earth after the global catastrophe. The film, based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel “Good Morning, Midnight”, was shot before the shutdown of COVID-19 and before the fire attack in 2020, but the disasters facing the earth seem enthusiastically similar.
“It’s the science fiction we’re imagining tomorrow,” Clooney said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “The disease of hatred and the elements that come from it, the fights and the wars – that have been glittering for a long time.”
Clooney stars as Augustine Lofthaus, a scientist living in Antarctica, who is believed to be the last man alive on Earth until a child named Iris (Coelin Springle) is discovered. He finds himself bound to take care of that girl as he takes it upon himself to contact the space crew and inform them of the demise of humanity.
The film’s list of stars includes Felicity Jones, David Ololo, Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler and Damien Beecher as five small actors aboard NASA’s spaceship Ather. The crew’s space journey, hoping to reconnect with the radio-quiet Earth, forms part of the second story.
Despite the tragedy at the center of “The Midnight Sky,” Clooney said he hopes for the movie.
“I wanted to get rid of it somehow,” he said. “I wanted there to be some optimism in a fairly indifferent story about the end of mankind.”
“The Midnight Sky” is released on Netflix on December 23. Watch the trailer below.
