This is one sci-fi fantasy/romance I’m really looking forward to seeing in 2012 (although the exact release date hasn’t been set). Upside Down features citizens of two worlds – one above, one below – who are not supposed to intermingle. Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst fall in love and break that rule, which puts their lives in jeopardy.
In an interview I did with Jim Sturgess for About.com in February 2011, the actor explained the appeal of the project and what sets it apart: “What I was pleased was that it plays like one of these sort of fantasy films, but it’s totally original, totally uniquely, and totally written by someone [with] a creative backbone with a story to tell that touches on fairly sort of serious issues… So then I thought, hopefully, it will give some of those other films a run for their money and be totally original too. I hope. I really hope people respond to it because I feel people just crave something new, you know, just not regurgitated films that just get told over and over and over and over again.”
The Plot:
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 grownup Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back. Not even the law or science!
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