Moon (2009) on Netflix
Sam Bell has two weeks left of a three-year helium-3 mining contract on the Moon. He wants to get home to his wife Tess; his only company is GERTY, the computer.
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Plot summary
After an oil crisis, Lunar Industries built Sarang Station on the far side of the Moon, where helium-3 is harvested and sent to Earth in canisters. Samuel Bell runs the facility alone, and with two weeks left of a three-year contract he wants to get home to his wife Tess and to Eve, the daughter born before he left. Live communication with Earth has failed, so the only word from Tess comes in old recorded messages. Sam starts seeing a disheveled man and a teenage girl who are not on the station. One of the visions distracts him while he is retrieving a canister, and he crashes his rover. He comes to in the station's infirmary, remembering nothing of the crash, with GERTY attending to him. GERTY tells him a team will come to repair the station.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Moon (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sam Rockwell almost turned down the lead role of Sam Bell, and the film was written specifically as a vehicle for him. Paddy Considine was the alternative choice had Rockwell declined.
- To cut costs, Duncan Jones re-used set pieces from an abandoned movie based on the BBC TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, including the sleeping quarters and the corridor of the "secret room".
- Moon was made for just US$5 million, with director Duncan Jones keeping the cast small and filming in a studio to hold costs down.
- Duncan Jones chose practical models over digital animation for the film's lunar rovers and helium-3 harvesters, working with Bill Pearson, the supervising model maker on Alien, to design them.
