Glen Powell (“Everybody Wants Some”) and Jack Black (“Bernie”) are both re-teaming with filmmaker Richard Linklater for his third directorial effort in the animation realm with “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure” at Detour FilmProductions and Submarine.
Netflix has just acquired the film which is set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and will be a hybrid of live-action, hand-drawn and computer animation. The approach “allows both the conjuring of a world long gone, & the flowing, playful expression of memory & imagination.”
Linklater wrote the script and is directing the film which is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston. The story unfolds from two interwoven perspectives. One is the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, the other from an excited perspective of a kid living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others.
Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggins, Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, and Danielle Guilbot co-star in the project which completed its live-action shoot in March in Austin, Texas.
Tommy Pallotta, Mike Blizzard, Femke Wolting and Bruno Felix will produce.
Source: THR
