Richard Linklater has directed films like Boyhood, SubUrbia, and the Before trilogy. He seems like an unlikely choice to helm a goofy movie about a pre-teen boy who inadvertently becomes an astronauts, but that's only one of the mysteries raised by this strange first trailer for Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood.
There's a lot to take in here, but let's start with the ludicrous premise that NASA has accidentally built the lunar model smaller than they intended. Apollo 10 1/2 could be a perfect companion piece to the 1986 movie Space Camp, in which a well-meaning robot launches a shuttle full of kids into space. Why has Linklater decided to use the same rotoscopic animation as he did in A Scanner Darkly? There, the uncanniness of the visuals matched the sci-fi dystopian story, but for a movie about a bunch of families leading an idyllic life in suburbia, it's quite off-putting to see.
Maybe the kid doesn't go into space. The official synopsis is here.
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives, the astronauts and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and a kid growing up in Houston. Taking inspiration from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater's own life,Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood is a snapshot of American life in the 1960s that is part coming of age, part societal commentary, and part out-of-this.
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, starring Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Bill Amoreaux, and Jack Black, will be released on April 1. Hopefully, it will earn a prequel about the NASA workers who assemble the module and slowly realize with growing horror and nausea, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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