New Tips And Triks For You

Right next to being lost at sea, one of the scariest and most hopeless scenarios imaginable is being lost in space. Case in point: Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) being ripped from her space shuttle rig by debris and being launched into the cosmos in the latest clip from Gravity.

The clip (above) is an edited version of the footage director Alfonso Cuarón brought to Hall H at Comic-Con International last weekend, and it is absolutely stunning. Utilizing Cuarón's talent for wonderful long-take shots, the teaser is a white-knuckle look at Stone and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) trying to return to the Explorer space shuttle after encountering a massive satellite debris field. It ends, ominously, with Kowalsky radioing "Houston, I've lost visual of Dr. Stone" as she spins out into space.

Shudder.

was made using technology Cuarón had developed for the film, though at Comic-Con he was remiss to describe exactly what it was or how it worked, not because it was "patent-pending, it's just boring as hell." Basically, he said, it meant the astronauts in the movie had to film while strapped inside a cube contraption, largely isolated from everyone else. However, it also meant that Bullock-who is deathly afraid of flying-didn't have to film her scenes in what's known as a " vomit comet," a plane that goes up into the atmosphere and back down again repeatedly in order to simulate weightlessness.

The end result looks stellar, utilizing the incredible visuals inherent in space but also the nail-biting tension involved in wondering what would happen if two people (Bullock and Clooney are the only real cast members) were just floating away from Earth with no way to phone home.

hits theaters Oct. 4.