Houston, we’re undoubtedly having an issue or two. After a fairly fiery meet cute, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum discover one another hopelessly caught in one another’s orbits on the top of NASA’s makes an attempt to win the area race. Enter Johansson’s go-getter advertising and marketing guru and her inventive plans to assist promote the NASA model to a skeptical public (and the penny-pinching US authorities, as nicely), even when it takes discovering a extra media-friendly Channing Tatum doppelgänger for some further comedy. Yeah, this film type of seems like a riot.
“Fly Me to the Moon” is directed by Greg Berlanti (the filmmaker behind motion pictures like “Love, Simon,” however maybe most well-known for his producing work on DC’s numerous reveals on CW) from a script by Rose Gilroy. Along with charismatic co-stars Johansson and Tatum, the ensemble forged contains a number of heavy hitters resembling “Group” icon Jim Rash, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson. If this movie sounds vaguely acquainted, that is as a result of it was initially meant to be a Marvel Cinematic Universe reunion between Johansson and Chris Evans, although the latter needed to drop out as a result of scheduling points. (It was additionally going to be directed by Jason Bateman, however he left the challenge over inventive variations.)
Encouragingly sufficient, Apple teamed up with Sony Footage to provide the movie a theatrical launch versus going straight to Apple TV+ streaming. That is sufficient to get your moon boots out and, I do not know, soar round and stuff? (There was a cause the moon boots fad did not final very lengthy.) “Fly Me to the Moon” involves theaters this July.