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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 14, 2009 16:25:14 GMT
Gets a very good write-up in the Radio Times, as one of their picks of the day, but even they are bemoaning the late hour of airing!
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 14, 2009 16:45:50 GMT
A dvd is available from the US History Channel site at $19.95 ...but UK shipping is $25 I would imagine a UK release date will follow the ITV showing on the 20th as generally , UK channels only release after they've made sure they have an audience for the programmes they put out first
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 14, 2009 17:30:13 GMT
It just occured to me, it's on for 90 minutes so that should be the whole thing... although you have to factor in a few minutes for ad breaks.
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 14, 2009 18:35:56 GMT
Airtime for Moonshot on ITV1: Monday, 20 July 2009, 10:50PM - 12:20AM. WTF why so late thanks for info LF ;D
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Post by Ditto on Jul 14, 2009 20:04:59 GMT
::writes in diary::
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Post by wrigglerosie on Jul 15, 2009 13:34:53 GMT
Times has a article with James being interviewed and a couple of pictures and its one of the picks of the day for Monday.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 15, 2009 13:44:00 GMT
Thanks Rosie. Scans, anyone?
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Post by wrigglerosie on Jul 15, 2009 17:36:10 GMT
I know I saw a scan of it somewhere, damned if I can find it! I'll try doing mine later - not ever tried this before so should be fun!! ;D ETA - found it - its on debris4spike's LJ debris4spike.livejournal.com/422062.htmlALSO keithtopping.blogspot.com/Monday 20 July I've mentioned this one a few weeks back when it was first announced but Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 - 10:50 ITV - despite being on ridiculously late (why?!), looks to be the highlight of the night. This is a docudrama mixing together the story of the men who undertook the historic mission to land on the moon with genuine NASA footage from Apollo 11 itself. Dramatising key moments in the years spent preparing for the mission, the film follows the astronauts as went go through NASA's intense selection procedures and reveals the arduous Apollo training programme and its impact on their families and friendships. It stars James Marsters from Buffy (as Buzz Aldrin) and Andrew Lincoln from This Life (as Michael Collins). And it looks gorgeous. It's been made in a co-production by the History Channel and there is, apparently, a ninety-minute version that's likely to turn up over there at some stage. But, even this shortened, sixty-nine minute film is highly recommended.
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Post by Pluto7077 on Jul 15, 2009 21:22:44 GMT
I have a scanner collecting dust, never used it, wouldn't know how ;D ;D Thanks Rosie
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 15, 2009 21:42:29 GMT
NZHeraldOver the moon Thursday Jul 16, 2009 By Scott Kara
As a lad, glued to the coverage of the Moon landing with 600 million others around the world, actor James Marsters was a little put out by how fuzzy the picture was.
"I was allowed to stay up late, and I was never allowed to stay up late," he remembers.
"I'd been told that this was very important. It seemed very cool at the time, but I couldn't understand why the picture was so bad. In my mind I thought it was going to look spectacular but it was all grainy. And then I got sleepy and got taken to bed," he laughs.
Back in July 1969, while the world was trumpeting the achievements of Neil Armstrong, it was Buzz Aldrin who 7-year-old Marsters was a fan of.
"The next day everybody was talking about Neil Armstrong and for some reason I thought Buzz was the cool guy. I never liked to go with what everyone else was doing. So I think just because everyone was talking about Neil I just naturally went with Buzz - it's a lot cooler name anyway."
Forty years on, Marsters finds himself playing his childhood hero in new television movie Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (July 26, 8.30pm, Prime), directed by Richard Dale, the man behind factual films like 2007's 9/11 The Twin Towers and the excellent documentary about the Apollo space missions, In the Shadow of the Moon.
Moonshot is a docu-drama containing never-seen-before archive footage and special effects that recount the lead-up to the Moon mission, the landing on July 20, and the return to Earth. It also reveals the intense competition that developed between Armstrong and Aldrin over who would be the first man to walk on the Moon.
Rather than being epic and grand, like many past space movies, the 90-minute tele movie is snappy and to the point with Armstrong's famous line, "One small step ...", almost glossed over in favour of the astronaut's descriptions of the Moon's surface.
"You could easily make it into a soap opera because there was such huge competiton," says Marsters. "They were all alpha dogs, and there was definitely a soap opera happening with them but we were just trying to tell the story as it happened and not trying to pump it up.
"These guys were not just the heroes we painted them as being, but in fact they were human beings," says the actor who's probably best known as Spike from series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Marsters prefers not to talk about Buffy, not that he's ashamed of it, it's just that he rates Moonshot as the most challenging and rewarding project he's done. So there's a lot to talk about, especially considering he got the chance to be Buzz Aldrin.
"He's like the coolest guy on Earth. He did something cooler than go to the Moon, he became a really cool person. And he saved himself," he says in reference to Aldrin's battle with alcoholism and depression.
He jokes that Aldrin's recent collaboration with rapper Snoop Dogg on the song Rocket Experience is further proof of the 79-year-old's enduring coolness.
It was because of Aldrin's highly strung personality that he was not given the nod ahead of the more cool, calm and collected - if a little boring - Armstrong to be the first man to walk on the Moon.
"I think Buzz should have got out first though, man," offers Marsters. "You know, the commander of the mission always stayed behind, every time, up until this one. I understand that Armstrong was probably more stable and he would probably handle the worldwide fame better, and as it turns out Armstrong has pretty much clammed up, and I don't blame him, but at the same time if they'd have chosen Buzz there'd be a more talkative first man to the Moon."
While Aldrin is the most competitive of the three Apollo 11 astronauts he's also the biggest team player.
"He just wanted to be the best astronaut ever because he thought - and I guess I'm speaking for someone who is still alive, which is a bit dicey - but to my understanding, he thought his father would finally tell him, 'Good job, son,' which he never said. That sort of thing will drive you to excel."
Moonshot manages to create a claustrophobic atmosphere, much like you'd imagine life in the crammed capsule to be like. Dale and his film crew used small cameras that, for the first time in the making of a movie of this type, enabled filming to be done using sets that were the actual size of the Apollo 11 capsule.
"Up until now they have always had to shoot with cameras that were very large, even the capsule in [the 1995 Tom Hanks movie] Apollo 13, which is a great film, was three times as big as it really was, so it kind of looks comfortable. It almost looks like it was a cakewalk to go to the Moon," says Marsters.
Which it wasn't, of course. And as farfetched as it sounds, by playing the part of Aldrin, he says he can appreciate what the astronauts went through to get to the Moon.
"They thought they only really had a 50/50 chance of living, and I don't know if they were afraid, they might have been resigned to their fate, but it was definitely not a cake walk.
"It's akin to going up Everest. It's really uncomfortable and it's not even that healthy. It's just one stinking miasma the whole time but you're doing something you really want to do so you put up with it. So what was out the window was definitely worth it but good God, what you have to go through inside that capsule."
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Post by Rainbow on Jul 16, 2009 6:03:50 GMT
;D I'm really looking forward to seeing it!
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Post by ladyflame on Jul 19, 2009 8:04:51 GMT
For those who are interested, the link to the Moonshot DVD is here: shop.history.com/detail.php?p=105846&ecid=PRF-2100656&pa=PRF-2100656Cost: $19.95 (£12.21)
Shipping: $23.95 (£14.66)
Release Date: 3 November 2009Orders to UK ship via Federal Express International Priority. Standard delivery times are 1-2 weeks. Paypal can be used once the item is 'IN STOCK', credit cards only for 'PRE-ORDERS'. There appears to be nothing on the UK History Channel website refering to 'Moonshot', there is also still nothing on Amazon.com about this DVD either. Sadly, even if we pre-order it, there is no way we're going to get it before seeing James at Hallowhedon.
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 19, 2009 10:08:22 GMT
thanks LF ;D ;D
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 19, 2009 18:33:24 GMT
Moonshot is going to be repeated Saturday 25th July at 4pm on ITV 1 ...just in case anyone misses it on Monday night ..yeah , right
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 19, 2009 22:07:23 GMT
That's more civilised, and I'm usually at a loose end Saturday afternoon. But is that the truncated version or the 90 mins we're getting on Monday?
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Post by nightnurse on Jul 19, 2009 23:52:55 GMT
After some rootling around , it appears to be the 90 minute version (including ad breaks ) as its on from 4 - 5:30 pm ;D
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Post by Teebee on Jul 20, 2009 0:00:29 GMT
I'll probably watch both
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Post by DeeDee on Jul 20, 2009 20:21:35 GMT
I'll probably watch both yeah I will as well ;D ;D yay not long now ;D ;D
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Post by wrigglerosie on Jul 21, 2009 8:55:02 GMT
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Post by Teebee on Jul 21, 2009 8:55:43 GMT
;D Well I thoroughly enjoyed Moonshot, the original and new footage was seamlessly put together, and although we all know the story I watched it with similar feelings I had on the actual day it all happened I would like to say I still would have watched whether James was in it or not, all the actors were well cast and after the initial 'ooh James on ' moment, I was just watching Buzz, Neil and Mike, which is how it should be Unfortunately I won't see the full version afterall as I'm working on Saturday afternoon, so I'll just have to buy the DVD
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