Fly Me to the Moon (2024) on Netflix
Kelly Jones is tasked with reviving NASA's public image ahead of Apollo 11. She clashes with launch director Cole Davis, then is directed to prepare a fake moon landing as a backup.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.6/1060,333 votes
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Plot summary
Late in 1968, Manhattan advertising executive Kelly Jones receives a high-stakes offer from Moe Berkus, a covert government operative serving President-elect Richard Nixon. He wants NASA's public image revived, and he pressures Kelly with the threat of exposing her deceptive past. She reluctantly accepts and relocates to Cocoa Beach, Florida, accompanied by her assistant, Ruby. At the Kennedy Space Center, she meets Cole Davis, the principled launch director preparing Apollo 11, and the two immediately clash over her methods, which include corporate sponsorships and bringing in actors to play scientists. Kelly suggests televising the moon landing with a camera on the Lunar Excursion Module, which Cole dismisses as impractical. Moe secretly endorses the idea and gives her another directive: a fake moon landing, codenamed Artemis, to be staged should the real mission fail.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
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- Jason Bateman, originally set to direct the film under the title Project Artemis, left the project citing creative differences and was replaced by Greg Berlanti, whose work on it was his first directorial effort since 2018's Love, Simon.
- Chris Evans dropped out of the film when the search for a new director changed the production schedule, and Channing Tatum entered negotiations to replace him in July.
- Screenwriter Rose Gilroy turned to the book Marketing the Moon for the script, saying it explained the original ads used and how science fiction was woven into the minds of the American people through genre books and films.
