How Richard Linklater Made His Animated Fantasy ‘Apollo 10 1/2’ Feel So Realistic: ‘Everything Is a Magic Trick’
thewrap.comwas on Dick Cavett at that time. Those four films at the drive-in were showing that night in Houston, Texas, at drive-ins. We really tried to get that exact with those kinds of details,” he explained.
And Linklater spent years soliciting home movies and photos from people who lived it in order to recreate ’60s homes and Houston landmarks like the Astroworld amusement park that are long gone, all of which contribute to the film’s larger fantasy.“We were finding images, kind of a lookbook for everything we’d have to create in the animation and we needed reference.
It was quite an undertaking,” he said. “But it seemed appropriate for a movie about the Apollo era, those years, where everything was such a long process, a decades vision.
It was a long, ‘someday we’ll have a finished film. Someday we’ll have our own little moonshot. Every film feels like that one, but this one especially feels like that.”“Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” premieres at SXSW on Sunday and debuts on Netflix on April 1. .
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