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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 3, 2008 12:33:10 GMT
Rosie said:
Not many, no... Daniel Lapaine (Armstrong) is Australian... so the Aldrins are American and the Collins' are Brits...
very tactful casting..................
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 8, 2008 13:21:39 GMT
Kosha Engler (Pat Collins) has added more to the cast info. Whole list: Principal cast: Neil Armstrong - Daniel Lapaine Buzz Aldrin - James Marsters Michael Collins - Andrew Lincoln Janet Armstrong - Anna Maxwell Martin Pat Collins - Kosha Engler Joan Aldrin - Kelli Kerslake Al Shepherd - Trevor White Gene Aldrin - Michael J Reynolds Bill Anders - Ian Porter Frank Boreman - Martin McDougall Tom Stafford - Richard Dillane Faye Stafford - Jennifer Woodward Marilyn Lovell - Ursula Burton Deke Slayton - Nigel Whitmey Chris Kraft - Colin Stinton I really have no clue this time about the guys she's added.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 20, 2008 14:47:19 GMT
British cinematographs shoot the feature film "Moonshot" in Lithuania
British cinematographs are finishing the shooting of the feature film "Moonshot" in Lithuania. This film recreates the event which mesmerized the world decades ago, when three American astronauts landed on the Moon by spaceship Apollo 11 in 1969, and the human foot touched the surface of this planet for the first time, informs ELTA.
Director Richard Dale and his creative team are working in our country not for the first time. The film "9/11: The Twin Towers" about the tragic events of 11 September 2001 in New York was filmed in Lithuania. This time the film"s creators chose the company Baltic Film Services as their partner again.
"We perfectly recreated New York in Lithuania and we managed to recreate the Moon too," Gary Tuck, head of Baltic Film Services, said smiling.
The film created by the British company Dangerous Films Ltd. in Lithuania will be shown on BBC and other world channels next year. the Baltic CourseSpeedy, huh?!
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 4, 2008 22:41:21 GMT
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Post by wrigglerosie on Jul 10, 2008 13:18:08 GMT
Theres a few pics on the Moonshot site www.dangerous.co.uk/programmes/programme_moonshot.asp(theres a few that change at the top) James looking very serious! And as I suspected - buzz cut! No curls! Wah but - its 7 weeks til DragonCon (not that I'm counting or anything so maybe some curls will have grown back by then....!
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 10, 2008 22:06:47 GMT
But not so many he looks like a poodle ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 11, 2008 14:26:41 GMT
Furrowed brow intensity and nice short hair ;D Andrew Lincoln's looking really cool too
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 13, 2008 12:26:03 GMT
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 13, 2008 16:24:23 GMT
Thanks for the link PK ;D
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Post by Rainbow on Jul 13, 2008 18:19:27 GMT
James looks so wholesome!!
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 15, 2008 11:10:14 GMT
;D Doesn't he look yummy with the buzz cut again ;D ;D the wifey has taken James's usual pose with the splayed hand and I bet James is looking for his Mobile in his pocket (I'll help you James )oops they didn't have mobiles in those days eh? can't wait to see this cause I was so interested in the moon landing in 1969 ;D ;D I think thats where I got my love of Sci Fi from ;D ;D
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Post by wrigglerosie on Aug 13, 2008 10:41:40 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Aug 14, 2008 14:33:04 GMT
Very nice
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Post by wrigglerosie on Sept 21, 2008 8:57:23 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Feb 24, 2009 13:01:01 GMT
Buzz Aldrin to land in Brighton
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, is travelling to Brighton for BBC Woldwide's annual Showcase promoting new drama Moonshot, which has already sold to five countries. The feature-length Dangerous Films production, which is about the first lunar landing has been snapped up by History Channel Latin America, Channel 1 in Russia, Societe Radio Canada, Israel Education Television in Israel and Dogus Yayin Grub in Turkey.
It was made for ITV1, TF1, ProSieben, History Channel and NTV. BroadcastNow
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Post by Pluto7077 on Feb 24, 2009 17:51:35 GMT
Shame James couln't come over too as it's only down the road
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Post by Rainbow on Feb 24, 2009 18:40:10 GMT
he's too busy with Dragonball Pluto
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 2, 2009 21:31:15 GMT
ScifiWire is really milking the James interviews! Here's a bit about Moonshot: James Marsters on how Moonshot brought Apollo 11 to life
James Marsters, who plays Buzz Aldrin in the made-for- movie Moonshot, told SCI FI Wire that the film blends its footage seamlessly with actual archival NASA footage. Moonshot documents the Apollo 11 mission that took astronauts to the moon for the first time.
"Our director, Richard Dale, was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, just fabulous," Marsters said in an interview on Monday in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he was promoting Dragonball: Evolution. "He's got this ability to take stock footage, say NASA footage, then take his footage and manipulate it digitally so the granularity and the contrast match perfectly with the stock footage. At the wrap party, they cut together 20 minutes to show us what was going to be coming, and it looked fabulous. They were using footage that they only filmed 12 hours previously, so obviously they were just hacking in the editing room. They weren't even really doing a full thing, but it still looked so believable. I really believed that I was out in orbit."
One thing Moonshot offers over other Apollo mission movies is an accurately small lunar capsule. Technology has allowed filmmakers to photograph such small spaces. "Usually when they do Apollo movies, the set is three times larger than the capsule was for real," Marsters said. "That's because they have to fit cameras and lighting equipment in. Now cameras are about as big as a ChapStick, so they built that capsule to exact specification. I was like this [clenched] for weeks in a row. Every button on our console was exactly like the LEM [lunar excursion module]. We had two people on us. I had to hit the exact button that Buzz Aldrin hit on the same word that he hit it, and I had to know what all the buttons meant. So I actually am pretty familiar with what the process is to blast off the moon."
Where Moonshot had to sacrifice compared with a film like, say, Apollo 13 was on its weightlessness effects. "Another wonderful thing about this director was he was just the king of the poor-boy shot," Marsters said. "There's a way to do weightlessness that costs millions of dollars, like the Ron Howard version, where you go up in the Vomit Comet [an airplane that creates moments of weightlessness] or you can get a bunch of wirework going. He just had these very interesting ways of flipping the camera over and having us do a little bit of mime and build these really believable shots. He ripped a bunch off of Kubrick. He used a bunch of stuff that he used back in the '60s to do 2001 and came up with a very believable zero G without ever making us go up in the Comet."
That includes the groundbreaking technology Kubrick used to make a pen float on a Pan Am flight to the moon. He attached it to a piece of glass and spun it in front of the camera. "We used that," Marsters said. "We used that in three different shots. I love that stuff. I love being able to make an illusion cheaply, simple."
The film covers training, the mission and return to Earth, Marsters said. "Really, one of the things the director wanted to do was show the world how hard it was to get to the moon," he said. "These guys are fighter pilots. They're trained to be boring. If their hair is on fire, they'll call back to mission control, 'Mission control, uh, we got a problem. My hair seems to be incinerating. Is there anything we can do about that?' Growing up, I was listening to these tapes, and I always thought it was kind of easy. It sounded easy, but it really wasn't."
Moonshot is set to air on the History Channel on July 20, the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.
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Post by Rainbow on Apr 3, 2009 5:55:14 GMT
Will have to increase my Virgin package - but Mr R loves the History channel so no prob there!
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 3, 2009 10:25:12 GMT
That's a US source, so seeing as it's a joint production with ITV I'm hoping it'll be on UK terrestrial too.
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