The low gravity, faint sun, desolate terrain, and the confinement of the space colony comprise the limited boundaries of Gardner’s world. Shepherd has left the public eye and the boy has become a whip-smart young man (“Hugo” star Asa Butterfield) raised by care-taking scientists, led by Kendra Wyndham (recent professional movie mother Carla Gugino). Wong) agree to the fateful decision that Gardner be raised on Mars in secret. Shortly after landing on Mars, she dies giving birth to a son named Gardner, the first human born away from Earth.įaced with a potential PR dilemma and the fact that an infant would not survive a return trip, Shepherd and Genesis director Tom Chen (B.D. Sarah carries her pregnancy to full-term in a completely zero gravity environment. Sarah Elliot (Janet Montgomery), the lead mission commander, discovers shortly into the seven-month journey to the Red Planet that she is pregnant. ![]() In 2018, the wealthy visionary Nathan Shepherd (Gary Oldman) has willed NASA’s Genesis program off the ground to finally colonize Mars. “The Space Between Us” begins as optimism beset by tragedy. For as much as there is a place for the heady and heavy, there should be room for the simple as sweet too. ![]() “The Space Between Us” is cheesy, corny, and pretends to be better than it really is, but, gosh darnit, the film has a charming and positive core that is hard to ignore. Look for The Space Between Us in theaters February 3.Call me a softy or a sunny optimist, but I will take "The Space Between Us" over the next "Percy Jackson and the Hunger Maze Runner City of Bones Games with the 5th Wave of Divergent Mortal Instruments." The YA movie marketplace is overfilled with militarized kid-on-kid peril in the science fiction department. Of course, Gardner’s physiological makeup is different because of his birth planet, and things don’t go as smoothly as he would wish. Oldman agrees to the trip… and our journey commences. As a teenager, as we meet him, he befriends a girl named Tulsa (Robertson) online, and makes it his mission to get to Earth and meet her. Upon landing on the fourth planet from the sun, she gives birth to a baby that will grow up knowing only the desolation of that world. Unbeknownst to her, the leader of that mission is pregnant. See, Gary Oldman’s Nathaniel Shepherd has put together a crew that is heading to the Red Planet, not to visit… but to live for a long period of time. ![]() Given the premise of The Space Between Us which stars Britt Robertson and Asa Butterfield, we wondered what the two of them would do if they had all the time in the world to finally achieve a dream or two.īutterfield and Robertson spoke to The Movie Mensch exclusively in our video interview and also shared insight into why working with each other on the science fiction/romance was such a treat.īutterfield portrays Gardner, a teenage boy who was born on Mars. What would you do? The journey to Mars would take months upon months and with that kind of time, one could write the great American novel or paint a masterpiece. Februin Interviews tagged Asa Butterfield / Britt Robertson / Exclusives / interviews / The Space Between Us by joeldamos
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