Moon landing or fake news?
Did they or didn’t they? One of the 20th century’s biggest conspiracy theories is that they didn’t.
Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic comedy/drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy, and based on a story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn.
Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me to the Moon is a sharp, stylish film set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing – or was that backroom landing?
During the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson), who is brought in to fix NASA’s public image, wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When The White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins…
Could this story possibly be one closer to the truth?
Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson also star in this question-stirring scenario of what may have really happened between 16 and 24 July 1969.
Fly Me To The Moon is on at Palace Cinemas. www.palacecinemas.com.au
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