It’s Blake vs Scarlett

Hollywood actresses Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are competing for the lead role in the new sci-fi movie Gravity, which tells the tale of a female astronaut who gets lost in space.

Hollywood actresses Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are competing for the lead role in the new sci-fi movie

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, which tells the tale of a female astronaut who gets lost in space,

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reported.

It had been thought Johansson had “verbally agreed” to star opposite her

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co-star Robert Downey Jr but Lively is now being considered for the part. The film, which is being directed by Alfonso Cuaron, is being dubbed a contemporary survival thriller.