posted 05-12-2015 10:20 PM               

Written by Bryan C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi, the script centers on a married astronaut who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut. She heads into a downward spiral as she loses her connection to her family, a condition that can afflict those who spend a long time in space and see how microscopic the world is, and when the male astronaut begins another affair with astronaut trainee, the bottom drops out.

The tone has been described as having shades of "Foxcatcher" and "The Right Stuff," the 1983 drama about the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

It is said to be inspired by a true-life astronaut love triangle in which a female mission specialist tried to kidnap a rival in 2007. The story made national headlines and inspired an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

posted 07-25-2018 04:01 PM               

Here is the first photo of Portman as "Lucy Cola."

posted 03-19-2019 10:03 AM               

In "Lucy in the Sky," Natalie Portman plays astronaut Lucy Cola, who returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space — and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.

• Directed by: Noah Hawley
  
• Screenplay by: Brian C Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi and Noah Hawley
  
• Story by: Brian C Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi
  
• Produced by: Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, p.g.a., Noah Hawley, p.g.a., John Cameron, p.g.a.
  
• Cast: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson and Ellen Burstyn

posted 03-19-2019 12:08 PM               

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Originally posted by onesmallstep:
Pure hyperbole — but then, if events/characters can be "loosely based on..." in Hollywood, anything's possible.

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"I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly."

"Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?"

"Yeah, I did, and you know what - that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!"

- Mitch Hedberg

posted 03-19-2019 08:29 PM               

Really, boiled down, it's just a workplace romance, glammed up a bit.

After all, didn't the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts (moonwalkers no less!) have transcendent experiences"? Tranquility base or Peyton Place?!

posted 03-20-2019 12:29 AM               

There was much criticism regarding the choice of Ryan Gosling playing Neil Armstrong when it was first announced. criticism that has since been overshadowed by his performance.

Like any genre movie where the audience has a strong understanding of the subject matter, we can find that when the script or action does not follow what we find logical, we tend to dislike.

Spaceflight, and in particular, the experience of witnessing Earth's fragile atmosphere and lack of political and cultural boundaries from space, has affected most people who have witnessed it first hand, is something many wish to see, and has sparked many imaginations. It is not surprising that somebody wants to explore the romanticism and psychological conflict possible following the experience of seeing and experiencing such sights.

This is one reason we were fortunate enough to have Alan Bean be one of the privileged few to walk on the moon. His artistic brain picked up on experiences that an engineering brain could easily overlook, and share his view of such an experience.

It is also why artistic type folk are invited on a lunar trip onboard SpaceX's BFR, so that the experience can be shared via many differing perspectives.

posted 03-20-2019 02:25 AM               

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Originally posted by David C:
I think if you can divorce yourself from all the BS and take it for what it is...

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posted 03-20-2019 08:51 PM               

Nowak, Oefelein and Shipman returned to their private lives. They did not cash in on their stories even though they had the opportunity and invitations to do so. Now, this film is dragging their story back into the headlines without any real care of what it might do to them or their families.

posted 03-20-2019 10:51 PM               

"I was looking for some, I don't know, some kind of existential experience, or some being, or some kind of physical phenomenon to, you know, to really grab me and tell me I'm not still in the water tank," Story Musgrave said post-flight. "I didn't expect anything particular. I was open-minded about it. Now, this is funny, but things went so smoothly that, in a sense, I was disappointed by what I felt! I never got that transcendental jolt."