Fly Me to the Moon (2024) [+]
Dec 18 2024
Fly Me to the Moon is an Apple TV+ movie taking place in the months before Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Ad executive Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is "hired" by Richard Nixon's representative Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) to make NASA glamorous and get the American public behind the upcoming moon landing. Kelly has to tangle with Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), head launch director at the Kennedy Space Center. He's very by the book and doesn't want Kelly's publicity stunts from interfering with operations.
Kelly does have a way of getting her way and she brings in a lot of money by bringing in a lot of advertisements. From car sponsorships to Tang the drink of astronauts to Omega watches. Meanwhile Kelly and Cole have a developing romance and everything is going great.
Which brings us to the plot twist. Moe is afraid that the moon landing will fail or that the astronauts will not do the right thing so he has Kelly organize a secret film project to film a fake moon landing just in case. This goes from having a pre-filmed video just in case to shooting it live and replacing the video feed (not audio) feed with the fake feed during the moon landing. Eventually Cole finds out and Kelly agrees to help him somehow stop the fake moon landing project (which leads to some heist-like tense sequences during the moon landing and film set)…
It's a charming movie with two great actors. Like Wolfs, this is another theater-quality film on Apple TV+. Unlike Wolfs this one probably needed more CGI and props to recreate 1969 and the moon landing (though I think archival footage is also used) but it looks great. It's a good film.
Ad executive Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is "hired" by Richard Nixon's representative Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) to make NASA glamorous and get the American public behind the upcoming moon landing. Kelly has to tangle with Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), head launch director at the Kennedy Space Center. He's very by the book and doesn't want Kelly's publicity stunts from interfering with operations.
Kelly does have a way of getting her way and she brings in a lot of money by bringing in a lot of advertisements. From car sponsorships to Tang the drink of astronauts to Omega watches. Meanwhile Kelly and Cole have a developing romance and everything is going great.
Which brings us to the plot twist. Moe is afraid that the moon landing will fail or that the astronauts will not do the right thing so he has Kelly organize a secret film project to film a fake moon landing just in case. This goes from having a pre-filmed video just in case to shooting it live and replacing the video feed (not audio) feed with the fake feed during the moon landing. Eventually Cole finds out and Kelly agrees to help him somehow stop the fake moon landing project (which leads to some heist-like tense sequences during the moon landing and film set)…
It's a charming movie with two great actors. Like Wolfs, this is another theater-quality film on Apple TV+. Unlike Wolfs this one probably needed more CGI and props to recreate 1969 and the moon landing (though I think archival footage is also used) but it looks great. It's a good film.