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"Apollo 18" film for March 2011

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The Weinstein Co. has revealed the first poster for their upcoming sci-fi film, Apollo 18. The film will use the “found footage” angle made popular again recently by films such as Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity to tell the “real story” of Nasa’s 18th Apollo mission, where astronauts were shocked to discover extraterrestrial life. The film will be produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and will mark the English-language directorial debut of Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, who previously directed the excellent Spanish film El Rey De La Montana (King of the Hill).
Apollo 18 is set to be released on March 4, 2011.
You can hit the jump to check out the poster and you can check out the official website here. Make sure your speakers are on.
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http://www.collider.com/2010/11/23/apollo-18-movie-poster/
there is a movie poster at the link.


imdb listing:
"Apollo 18" (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772240/

http://www.apollo18movie.net/


not quite related:
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Warner Bros. has picked up “Dark Moon,” a spec from scribe Olatunde Osunsanmi, for Akiva Goldsman produce via his Weed Road shingle. Osunsanmi is also on board to direct the movie.
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This bit was pretty funny:

A quintessential Cold War story, Apollo 18 casts light on the covert and undocumented lunar mission that officially “never happened.” Bekmambetov, hired by Russia to shoot a documentary about the Russian space station, recently came across footage in its space archives that bolsters the idea that an Apollo 18 mission did, in fact, take place, and reveals startling evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. This actual footage will be part of Apollo 18, a paranormal thriller that will interpolate fact and fiction.
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So Bekmambetov seriously believes this shit is real? :guffaw:

As for the film in general: Big deal. If any of the astronauts who would have been aboard the actual Apollo 18 (Dick Gordon, Vance Brand, Harrison Schmitt) are still alive and have heard about this, they gotta be laughing their asses off right about now. :guffaw:
 
I think it's safe to say they're just doing some straight faced Blair Witch style promotion. It's not unusual with this type of found footage/mockumentary film to pretend it's all "real."
Might be entertaining, but more likely to be two hours of people yammering capped off by the inevitable "oh shit" moment five minutes from the end.
 
Yeah, I highly doubt anyone involved with this thinks its real. This is just the standard way of promoting this kind of thing. District 9 did it, and it abandons the straight-up documentary presentation about a third of the way into the movie.

As for this, it could be interesting. The premise is certainly unique, but it's hard to tell if it'll work as an actual movie.
 
I can't wait for the remake of "Apollo 13" where we found out the Lowell, Swigert and Haise weren't alone in space............
 
There's one astronaut who firmly believes he saw something on one of the missions, I think Micheal Collins. I think it might be based on that. His views have caused quite a bit of contraversy as he believes NASA knows something and won't say anything.
 
I'm nervous about this because I'm writing a project right now that deals with the same subject material or close to it anyway. It is not a found footage project though.
 
I am curious to see how they manage to secretly launch a Saturn V rocket. :lol:

Aside from that--looks like it could be good. I have a special interest in found-footage movies. They're the cinematic equivalent of writing in the second person.
 
Could be a interesting movie-- in a b-movie sort of way.

Goliath said:
I am curious to see how they manage to secretly launch a Saturn V rocket. :lol:

Aside from that--looks like it could be good. I have a special interest in found-footage movies. They're the cinematic equivalent of writing in the second person.
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I think it involved the head of NASA stepping outside and shouting "Holy shit, look at that!" and the whole planet looking the other way while it launches.
 
This is a pretty cool idea; I hope the execution matches the concept.

And, yeah, they better have a good excuse for a Saturn V launch going unnoticed. :rommie:
 
RJDiogenes said:
This is a pretty cool idea; I hope the execution matches the concept.

And, yeah, they better have a good excuse for a Saturn V launch going unnoticed. :rommie:
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:lol: First thing I thought when I read that. My guesses:

1) They make up a space probe launch that never happened ("Pioneer 22 doesn't exist! It's a cover story!"). That would be sort of cheesy because all the real world Saturn V launches are of pretty well-known payloads. Or...

2) the supposedly unused Apollo 18 Saturn V is secretly replaced with dummy mockups, and the real rocket is moved to a remote location and launched from there. Also cheesy because, you know, it's sort of noticeable no matter where you launch it from.

Basically, unbelievable no matter how you cut it -

Wait, I thought of one. They could steal a page from Marooned and launch it in the middle of a hurricane, through the eye when nobody is watching! ;)
 
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