Famous director Richard Linklater (“Before Sunrise””Boyhood”)’s long-awaited new work is here! The new film “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood”, a live-action shooting combined with hand-painted + CG animation created by him, released a preview and announced that it will be launched on Netflix on April 1 this year.
The 1969 American moon landing event combined with the growth of a teenager, the style is fresh and delicate.
“Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” features live action and animation, featuring Zachary Levi, Jack Black, Glen Powell, Josh Wiggins, Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, Danielle Guilbot, and others.
The inspiration for the story still comes from Linklater’s personal experience: his childhood in Houston, Texas, in the 1960s.
The plot is described as “telling the first human landing on the moon in the summer of 1969 from two intertwined perspectives. It focuses both on the astronauts and mission control at that euphoric moment, as well as the bottom-up, lesser-known alternative. A perspective. A kid who lives near NASA, but mostly watches it on TV with millions of other people. The film is both a rigorous recreation of that particular historical moment, and of a man living a mundane life in the suburbs children’s fantasies about boarding a secret train and taking part in a mission to the moon.”
