‘Apollo 10 1/2’ Trailer: Director Richard Linklater Sends a Kid to the Moon Before Neil Armstrong (Video)
thewrap.comRichard Linklater’s latest film “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” poses the question: what if the first person to walk on the moon wasn’t Neil Armstrong but was actually a kid from Houston leading a mission called Apollo 10 1/2 in secret because NASA accidentally built the space shuttle too small?
That amusing fantasy and twist on American history though is just the set up for Linklater’s latest and arguably most personal film, which just released its first trailer Monday.
It’s one in which he explores the reality of what life was like in Houston, Texas in 1969 just before the moon landing, all seen through the eyes of a kid who lived right next door to all of it. “Apollo 10 1/2” is a collection of comedic vignettes that show how rapidly the world seemed to be changing for those living at the heart of the space race, from AstroTurf on baseball fields to color televisions and a wealth of futuristic stories on TV, to even the advent of dial tone phones.
And while the movie isn’t strictly autobiographical, it does draw heavily from Linklater’s own experience growing up in Houston.
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