Del Toro Says Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Is ‘Insane’. Nice.

I’ve been looking forward to  Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity  for a while now. Fuck, I’ve been looking forward to anything  Cuarón since Children of Men. So any time there’s news regarding the science-fiction project he’s working on, my ears perk up. They doubly perk when  Cuarón’s bestie  Guillermo Del Toro calls the project insane  and mind-blowing.

Slashfilm:

Guillermo del Toro, who has a long personal and professional relationship with Cuarón, says of his friend’s new film,

What is incredible about what they did is, they talked to David Fincher, they talked to Jim Cameron, I connected Jim and Alfonso for that. And what Alfonso is trying, is so insane. And Jim said, well, look, you’re about five years into the future…it’s too early to try anything that crazy. And they did it!

[cont]

I think he would kill me if I reveal [what is so crazy about it], and in time it will be publicized, but I think that in the same way that he pushed the narrative in Children of Men…[they] are absolutely pushing a new boundary in filmmaking, completely mind-blowing. And they way they’re making [Gravity] will I think foverever change certain types of productions. The engineering and the ingenuity of the machines they’ve created to film that way is fantastic. I”m amazed at Alfonso in the last few movies, because he has completely transformed himself.

I am the very excite-type for this movie. Sure it’s hyperbole, but it’s confirmation that some day my eyeballs will be able to gorge themselves on gorgeous  Cuarón imagery.