Dave McNary Film ReporterNetflix nabbed Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10½,” an animated film set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.The project, announced Thursday, coincides with the 51st anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.“Apollo 10 1/2” is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston.
Linklater directed from his own script, which attempts to interweave the astronaut and mission control view along with an excited child’s perspective, living near NASA, but mostly watching it on television.
The film centers around a kid’s fantasy about being plucked from his average life in suburbia to secretly train for a covert mission to the moon.
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