There’s a longtime conspiracy theory that the famous Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 was faked – and more specifically, that Stanley Kubrick was the filmmaker employed to bring about this trickery.
The new movie Moonwalkers, opening this Friday, has fun with this concept, taking it to an additional level. In the film, CIA agent Kidman (Ron Perlman) is sent to London specifically to hire Kubrick to fake the moon landing, only for his would-be conversation with Kubrick’s agent to be impulsively hijacked by Jonny (Rupert Grint), a band manager in significant financial peril, who can’t pass up the suitcase of money Kidman comes to him with. Soon, he’s getting a friend (Robert Sheehan) to impersonate Kubrick and then actually attempting to have the moon landing film made, when Kidman confronts him.
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The new movie Moonwalkers, opening this Friday, has fun with this concept, taking it to an additional level. In the film, CIA agent Kidman (Ron Perlman) is sent to London specifically to hire Kubrick to fake the moon landing, only for his would-be conversation with Kubrick’s agent to be impulsively hijacked by Jonny (Rupert Grint), a band manager in significant financial peril, who can’t pass up the suitcase of money Kidman comes to him with. Soon, he’s getting a friend (Robert Sheehan) to impersonate Kubrick and then actually attempting to have the moon landing film made, when Kidman confronts him.
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