Gravity gave Cuarón his first Academy Award for Best Director and opened a new door in the realm of sci-fi that many stories benefitted from. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), an astronaut who after an accident in space leaves her stranded, fights to make a safe return to Earth.
This trend can be traced back all the way to 2013 when Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity was released. Related: Every Upcoming Sci-Fi Movie In 2021 However, in the 2010s, there was a preference towards space movies grounded in science, which while not entirely scientifically accurate (after all, they are fiction, not documentaries), are rooted in science and thus offer a completely different experience from, for example, the Star Wars movies. Sci-fi movies set in space have become very popular thanks to classics like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner, and have maintained their relevance thanks to bigger universes like that of Star Wars, which is in constant expansion. The sci-fi genre has always been popular and has been kept afloat for years thanks to its many subgenres, but there’s one that has an important spot in the hearts of viewers: space movies.
The film industry is defined and moved by trends, which sooner or later end up losing the audience’s attention and so writers and filmmakers have to find new ways to tell fresh stories. The sci-fi genre went through a specific trend in the 2010s when various successful movies set in space were released, but this came to an end with The Martian in 2015.
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