Jonás Cuarón is set to take on the filmmaking industry with the new movie "Desierto."

Cuarón is the son of Alfonso Cuarón, the director who helmed the 2013 science fiction thriller film "Gravity," Yahoo! News reported from the AP. Cuarón, who also wrote scripts together with his father, has directed a number of short films including last year's "Gravity" spinoff short, "Aningaaq," ComingSoon.net wrote.

"Desierto" ("Desert") was written by the younger Cuarón and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's grandson, Mateo Garcia. The movie stars Gael Garcia Bernal and is slated for release at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, Sept. 13.

Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón, Jonas' uncle, served as the flick's producers, Yahoo! News added. David Linde, García Bernal, Fréderique Dumas-Zajdela, Nicolás Celis, and Santiago García Galván executive produced the project, ComingSoon.net listed.

Garcia Bernal, 36, portrays the role of a migrant running away from a U.S. vigilante played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the news outlet noted. In the film, Garcia Bernal's character and his fellow travelers are crossing an unguarded section of the Sonora desert when they are gunned down one by one, Variety wrote.

"Since I started writing the script, I was always thinking of Gael," Cuarón said of the Mexican actor, as reported by Yahoo! News. He added that the film was majorly filmed in the Baja California desert, which, according to the director, is "one of the most important characters in this film," the news outlet noted.

Stuart Ford of IM Global describes "Desierto" as a "de facto prequel" to "Gravity," Variety noted.

"Jonas and Alfonso were working on the screenplay of 'Forsaken,' then called 'Desierto,' when they had a very similar concept and put it in space. So 'Forsaken' has a lot of themes similar to 'Gravity.' It's about someone in a spectacularly peaceful but perilous environment trying to get home," Ford explained, as quoted by Variety.

Cuarón Brothers Talk Climate Change & Film Industry's Impact

Alfonso and Alfredo Cuarón's recent appearance at the Venice International Film Festival tackled how to solve the climate change issue and how to strengthen the film industry's environmental impact.

The two insisted that climate change must always be discussed. Alfonso said that this means "changing completely our economic model and establishing a new one," while Alfredo, an environmental scientist, said that talking about climate change is "understanding our environment as a living, fragile and complex system and making sure we work hard to respect the interconnectivity of all living things," EcoWatch reported.