Spinning in Oblivion.

It’s a bad day in space in the powerful new trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. (And I expect it’ll be even worse in IMAX 3-D.) Oh yes, this could well be the cure for my summermovietime blues.

Speaking of which, great line in the AICN comment thread on this: “After seeing this (and especially the first trailer) I have a theory that Gravity is actually set in the same universe as Man of Steel and these poor people are some of those left to die in the wake of Superman’s destruction of orbiting satellites.”

Update: So the trailer above was apparently just the beginning. The powers-that-be are releasing three different clips. The third one is up tomorrow — Here’s Part 2.

Update 2: And Part 3