The Space Between Us (2017) on Netflix
Gardner Elliot, the first person born on Mars, has grown up among the colony's scientists. At sixteen he comes to Earth to find his father and meet Tulsa, a girl from Colorado.
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The astronaut Sarah Elliot gives birth to Gardner after the first colony ship lands on Mars, and dies of eclampsia; the father is unknown. Nathaniel Shepard, the CEO behind the colony, keeps the birth secret. Gardner grows up on Mars, raised by the astronaut Kendra Wyndham, and has met only fourteen people. Through a robot he helped build he reaches his mother's belongings and finds a ring and a video of Sarah with a man in a beach house; he becomes determined to find him. He chats online with Tulsa, a street-smart girl in foster care in Colorado.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Space Between Us (2017)
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- In July 2015, Relativity Media sold the project that became The Space Between Us to STX Entertainment so it could reach an agreement with its creditors and avoid having to file for bankruptcy. STX produced and distributed the film.
- The screenplay began in 1999 at Universal Pictures and Mike Lobell Productions under the title Mainland, about a rebellious teen born on the moon who wanted to come to Earth but whose body might not survive the transition. After failed rewrites by Allison Burnett, the project sat unproduced for over a decade.
- In its third weekend, The Space Between Us was pulled from 2,441 theaters, an 84.6% drop to 331 screens, taking $260,000, which the article calls the 11th biggest theater drop in history.
- Asa Butterfield was 20 at the film's release and Britt Robertson 27, a seven-year gap larger than that of their characters, both around 16 or 17, which caused controversy.
- Decathlon diving masks were used as the ordinary masks worn by the team that helps returning astronauts out of the spaceship.
