Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ Starring George Clooney Gets a Poster

Alfonso Cuaron‘s much anticipated science fiction film Gravity is finally nearing its release, and today a new poster has been revealed.  The film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts who find themselves stranded in space after disaster strikes and their ship explodes.

Cuaron previously directed Children of Men, which I personally loved, so I’m very anxious to check this one out when it hits theaters October 4th in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.  Hit the jump for the poster and synopsis.

Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.