Moonwalkers
Moonwalkers is a 2015 British crime comedy film directed by debut director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, written by Dean Craig, and starring Ron Perlman, Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan. The film, which is based on Moon landing conspiracy theories, had its world premiere at SXSW on March 14, 2015. It had a limited release on January 15, 2016 and was available through video on demand by Alchemy.
Plot
In the days leading up to the Apollo 11 Moon landing, CIA agent Tom Kidman is tasked with hiring Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moonwalk, in the event the astronauts fail in their mission. The CIA views the Moon landing as a potential ideological victory over the Soviet Union, necessary for American morale. The CIA gives Kidman a large sum of cash as an incentive for Kubrick, and orders him to murder Kubrick when the film is complete to prevent the story from leaking. Unbeknownst to the CIA, Kidman is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to his time in Vietnam, and responds to any frustration with extreme violence.
More details
| author | Dean Craig |
|---|---|
| director | Antoine Bardou-Jacquet |
| editor | Bill Smedley |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | apollo 11 art project bad trip bong break in central intelligence agency cia cia agent commune east end east end of london extreme violence film hippie intentional community land lsd meet moon landing performance art soviet union spain stanley kubrick struggle suffer think vietnam vietnam war want |
| producer | Georges Bermann |
| productionCompany | Nexus Factory Partizan Films Potemkino |
| publisher | Alchemy |
| theme | conspiracy theories crime comedy filmmaking |