Ashes (2012)
Upside Down (2012)
We’re getting lovesick looking for more details on Juan Solanas’ scifi romance Upside Down. Not only will it star the heart-flutter-inducing Jim Sturgess, but Solanas put the brilliant Watchmen designer Alex McDowell in charge of his trippy inverted worlds.
Upside Down takes place in two worlds that are literally on top each other, each city with their own gravity system. Sadly, the citizens of each town can not visit the other, for unknown reasons. Jim Sturgess plays the main character Adam, who falls in love with a girl from the upside down world Eve, played by Kirsten Dunst. And like any good lovelorn hero, he’s not going to let a little thing like gravity get in the way of his heart’s desire.
The first thing Upside Down has going for it is the director and writer, Juan Solanas. We’ve been curiously watching his films for many years, and included a favorite below, The Man Without A Head. Take a look at the dingy futuristic city he’s created. There’s no question that his vision for Upside Down, has the potential to be visually stunning.
Second, Alex McDowell, who worked on Watchmen, The Crow, Fear and Loathing, Fight Club, and The Minority Report to name a few, is the production designer for this feature. Brilliant.
Michelle McGahey from Dark City and The Matrix is the Supervising Art Director. And finally Jim Sturgess will presumably doing what he does best, portraying a man in love. I’m on the fence about Dunst, but Sturgess has proved time and time again that he can pull off the saddened lover from a far.
The film is currently in post-production, and has a release date of May 2011.
Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach… a girl named Eve. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grown‐up Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back… Not even the law or science!
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