After tackling innovative animation with Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater is returning to the medium. Linklater wrote and is directing animated featureApollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure, which has just been picked up by Netflix.
Set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon, the feature is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston, TX, and tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives.
Apollo 10 1/2:A Space Age Adventurewill be told from both the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and the lesser-seen bottom up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid’s perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV.
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