Hollywood Made a Rom-Com About Faking the Moon Landing

Look, all of us complain lots about Hollywood solely making sequels, solely doing remakes, and mainly simply rehashing the identical 4 plots time and again. So if nothing else, you need to give Fly Me to the Moon this: It positively is not a premise and style I’d have ever anticipated.

It’s a romantic comedy constructed round NASA faking the moon touchdown.

Technically talking, the movie doesn’t seem to counsel the Moon touchdown was pretend, a long-standing conspiracy concept amongst some. As a substitute, it imagines that NASA may need been so pushed to succeed on the Moon touchdown, and so centered on beating the Russians in any respect prices, that they might put together pretend Moon touchdown footage to have simply in case one thing went mistaken with the true Moon touchdown.

And those placing this all collectively within the film are Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. In fact they fall in love — what’s extra romantic than engineering the best hoax of the twentieth century???

Watch the trailer for Fly Me to the Moon beneath:

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Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a pointy, trendy comedy-drama set towards the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon touchdown. Introduced in to repair NASA’s public picture, sparks fly in all instructions as advertising maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already tough process. When the White Home deems the mission too vital to fail, Jones is directed to stage a pretend moon touchdown as back-up and the countdown really begins…

Fly Me to the Moon is scheduled to open in theaters on July 12. Perhaps if we make it a large enough hit, they’ll make a sequel about faking the primary House Shuttle launch referred to as Fly Me 2 the Moon.