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Production Designer Jim Bissell Builds a New Kind of Spaceship in George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky”

Production designer Jim Bissell landed ET: The Extraterrestrial fresh out of college. His latest, The Midnight Sky (now streaming on Netflix) marks a return to the realm of science fiction, but this time he’s forgoing adorable aliens to picture the end of the world as we know it. Director-star George Clooney plays astrophysicist Augustine Lofthouse, ...

By Hugh Hart  |  December 24, 2020
Behold the Official Trailer for George Clooney’s Sci-Fi Film “The Midnight Sky”

And now we’ve got our first look at George Clooney’s upcoming sci-fi film The Midnight Sky—as promised, Netflix has dropped the full trailer this morning. The film features Clooney as a lonely scientist named Augustine, marooned in the Arctic after some kind of global catastrophe. Augustine is trying to reach the Ether, a spaceship that ...

By The Credits  |  October 27, 2020
See First Footage From George Clooney’s Sci-Fi Film “The Midnight Sky”

Okay, so the footage is as sparse as the arctic setting depicted, but it’s exciting nonetheless to get our first peek at George Clooney’s upcoming sci- film for Netflix, The Midnight Sky. The teaser consists of some attempted radio communication from a scientist named Augustine (Clooney), marooned in the arctic, and a shot of Augustine trudging ...

By The Credits  |  October 26, 2020