posted April 29, 2008 12:20 PM               

Moon Shot - New major docudrama co-production announced

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Following the success of 9/11 The Twin Towers and Diana - The Last Days of a Princess, Dangerous Films are proud to announce their latest major special, Moon Shot.

This thrilling, glossy drama follows our journey to the moon, revealing the untold inside story behind the heroism and the technology. For the first time in the history of our species, we walked upon another celestial body. With pin-sharp factual accuracy, Dangerous Films will take audiences there once more.

This major international co-production between Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TF1 is in preproduction, and will film in the new year. Featuring a witty and dynamic script from a major drama writer, stunning access and intelligent direction, MOON SHOT will be one of the landmark television events of 2009.

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With the factual drama Moon Shot, Dangerous Films have secured their first ITV1 commission. Controller of Popular Factual, Jo Clinton-Davis has confirmed the UK broadcaster will join partners ProSieben and TF1.

Drawing on the pioneering special effects techniques and lavish production values of 9/11: The Twin Towers and D-Day 9.9.1944, the feature-length programme celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the Moon landing. The special uses powerful reconstruction written by award-winning writer Tony Basgallop, state of the art CGI, incisive interviews, breath-taking HD archive, and an established relationship with NASA.

Dangerous Films’ highly respected track record for landmark event television lends itself perfectly to this project. With a primetime Emmy nomination and Grierson & RTS shortlisting for 9/11: The Twin Towers, Moon Shot looks set to be one of the most talked-about specials of 2009.

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History Channel has been confirmed as the US partners for the major drama special, Moon Shot. Head of Creative Content at Dangerous, Richard Dale, said, "The Apollo 11 moon landing is one of America's greatest triumphs. It is thrilling therefore to have an American partner on board. The History Channel with its excellent reputation in dealing with recent historical events is a perfect home for this project."

"The History Channel is delighted to join Dangerous Films on this exciting project celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing", said Susan Werbe, Vice President, Programming, The History Channel. "In 1969, the whole world watched this dramatic and courageous feat. In 2009, we expect the world to watch again as we dazzle viewers with newly enhanced HD images and enlighten viewers as to the inside story of Moon Shot."

Mike Kemp, Dangerous Films' Managing Director, added: "It has been our ambition to partner with History Channel for a long time. It is great news that Moon Shot has provided the opportunity to bring together our two respected factual brands."

The special is currently in pre-production, and will shoot in 2008.

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posted May 22, 2008 02:26 PM               

James is happy to announce that he will be starring in the forthcoming ITV / History Channel / ProSieben movie "Moonshot." "Moonshot" is a dramatization of the days leading up to the Apollo 11 launch to the moon. James will portray American astronaut Buzz Aldrin. "Moonshot" is expected to air in 2009 but no specific date is yet scheduled.

posted May 23, 2008 09:05 AM               

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Originally posted by SCE to AUX:
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posted June 19, 2008 08:19 AM               

British cinematographs are finishing the shooting of the feature film "Moonshot" in Lithuania. This film recreates the event which mesmerized the world decades ago, when three American astronauts landed on the Moon by spaceship Apollo 11 in 1969, and the human foot touched the surface of this planet for the first time, informs ELTA.

Director Richard Dale and his creative team are working in our country not for the first time. The film "9/11: The Twin Towers" about the tragic events of 11 September 2001 in New York was filmed in Lithuania. This time the film's creators chose the company Baltic Film Services as their partner again.

"We perfectly recreated New York in Lithuania and we managed to recreate the Moon too," Gary Tuck, head of Baltic Film Services, said smiling.

posted July 21, 2008 03:08 PM               

The cast, as identified by the Internet Movie Database includes:

• James Marsters - Buzz Aldrin
  
• Andrew Lincoln - Michael Collins
  
• Anna Maxwell Martin - Janet Armstrong
  
• Daniel Lapaine - Neil Armstrong
  
• William Hope - Psychologist
  
• Colin Stinton - Bob Gilruth
  
• Ursula Burton - Marilyn Lovell
  
• Michael J. Reynolds - Gene Aldrin
  
• Richard Dillane - Tom Stafford
  
• Trevor White - Alan Shepard
  
• Ian Porter - Bill Anders
  
• Martin McDougall - Frank Boreman
  
• Nigel Whitmey - Deke Slayton
  
• Kosha Engler - Pat Collins
  
• Jennifer Woodward - Faye Stafford
  
• Kelli Kerslake - Joan Aldrin
  
• Gabija Jaraminaite - Pat White
  
• Patrick Poletti - Chris Kraft
  
• Callum Marullo - Rick Armstrong

Australian actor Daniel Lapaine made his film debut as an expatriate Olympic swimmer with comedy hit Muriel's Wedding.

After this performance, Daniel returned to a successful stage career having previously starred in productions of Hamlet, Richard III and the one man show Island.

A playwright as well as an actor, he also saw several of his writings produced on the stage, including Cloud Cuckooland and The White Room. A few years later Lapaine returned to the big screen, including parts in period pieces Dangerous Beauty and 54 (both 1998).

After playing Claire Danes' older brother in Polish Wedding (1998), Lapaine re-teamed with the actress, this time as her betrayer, in the drama Brokedown Palace (1999). Lapaine was also featured in the action thriller Double Jeopardy, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones.

Lincoln made his first on-screen appearance in an episode of Drop the Dead Donkey but he rose to fame as an actor in the popular British series This Life, playing Edgar "Egg" Cook, before going on to star in the hit comedy drama Teachers (of which he directed two episodes in the third series).

He also has a lead role as university lecturer and psychologist Robert Bridge in afterlife next to Lesley Sharp.

Lincoln appears on the big screen with roles in Human Traffic, Love Actually, Enduring Love and Scenes of a Sexual Nature.