First clip from Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity

Warner Bros. has released the first clip from Children of Men-director Alfonso Cuaron’s new sci-fi opus Gravity. 

The film centres on a pair of astronauts, who get stranded in space when a blast destroys their shuttle while on a routine spacewalk.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are the glamourous central duo lost together in the vastness of space.

Gravity opens in Ireland on November 8th.

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.