Luna zero due
Luna zero due (Moon Zero Two) è un film di fantascienza del 1969 diretto da Roy Ward Baker e prodotto dalla Hammer Films. It was billed as a "space western". The film did very poorly at the box-office, but has become a minor cult classic due to its having been featured on an early episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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| Paese di produzione | Regnno Unito |
| Durata | 100 min. |
| Genere | fantascienza |
| Regia | Roy Ward Baker |
| Sceneggiatura | Michael Carreras, Martin Davison, Frank Hardman, Gavin Lyall |
| Fotografia | Paul Beeson |
| Montaggio | Spencer Reeve |
| Musiche | Don Ellis |
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Trama
In the year 2021 the moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse group of people to settlements such as Moon City, Farside 5 and others.
Two such denizens of this rough and tumble lunar society are the notorious millionaire J. J. Hubbard and former-astronaut-turned-satellite-salvager Bill Kemp. The first man to set foot on Mars, Kemp has now left the Space Corporation because he wants to do space exploration whereas his former employer only wants to do commercial passenger flights to Mars and Venus (the first manned mission to Mercury has not yet been made since there is no compelling financial interest). When Hubbard hears of a small 6000-tonne asteroid made of pure sapphire that is orbiting close to the moon, he hires Kemp to capture it using Kemp's old "Moon 02" space ferry and bring it down to the lunar farside although it would be against the law. However, Kemp has little choice since he has learned that his flight license soon will be revoked due to protests from the Corporation. Hubbard also reveals that he plans to use the sapphire as a rocket engine thermal insulator; he would build more powerful rockets capable of finally colonizing also Mercury and moons of Jupiter—for profit.
Meanwhile a young woman arrives looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape at Spectacle Crater on the lunar farside. Unfortunately, the trip from Moon City on the nearside would take six days by lunar buggy. Since Kemp could go there in 20 minutes using Moon 02, she convinces him to try to learn whether her brother is still alive. In doing so, Kemp learns more than he would like about some of Hubbard's schemes.
Produzione
Moon Zero Two was filmed at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England. The screenplay was by Michael Carreras from an original story by Gavin Lyall, Frank Hardman and Martin Davison. It was produced by Michael Carreras, directed by Roy Ward Baker, was filmed in Technicolor and was 100 minutes in duration.
Il budget fu di 500.000 sterline[1][2]
Effetti speciali
Special visual effects for the film were created by a team headed by veteran visual effects artist Les Bowie, who worked on numerous Hammer productions and several notable British-made science-fiction features.
The "Moon 02" Spacecraft is described in the film as being 'quite old', and is clearly derived from essentially NASA Apollo-era vintage. All the more "Modern" technology on the moon is much more free-spirited and 'mod' in design, and looks like a Worlds Fair diorama, rather than anything NASA ever discussed building; among the set decorations are several of the famous "Ball" chairs created in 1966 by Finnish designer Eero Aarnio. Late in production, a dialogue reference to Neil Armstrong becoming the first man on the moon was inserted, and a monument on the site is shown. The film was released three months after the landing.
Critica
Note
Voci correlate
Collegamenti esterni
- (EN) Luna zero due, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
Mystery Science Theater 3000
- (EN) "Mystery Science Theater 3000" Moon Zero Two (epsiodio TV 1990), su IMDb, IMDb.com.
- (EN) Episode guide: 111- Moon Zero Two
- (EN) Moon Zero Two pictures from mst3k.booyaka.com
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