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Walk on the Moon in IMAX 3D

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-eagle-has-landed dept.

HaveNoMouth writes "NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Tom Hanks are making an IMAX 3D movie about the Apollo moon landings to give viewers something like the actual experience of being on the moon. Complete with actors playing astronauts, mockups of the Lunar Excursion Module, and fake moon surface, this looks to be a real kick. The website for the movie itself is all shockwave, but it contains some nice behind-the-scenes photos of the production. Here's a QuickTime trailer. All you lunar hoax conspiracy theorists out there can just consider this the remake, with 2005-class special effects."

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  1. Re:Another remake? by Shky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Repeating jokes from the summary but with slightly different wording makes for high-larity!

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  2. Fake moon surface? by Cerdic · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...mockups of the Lunar Excursion Module, and fake moon surface...

    I wonder if this is the same fake moon surface they used for the Apollo 11 "mission." It can't be - it has to look better since it will be in color and... 3D!

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  3. For a more authentic look... by birge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if they'll be able to use the original sets NASA used in the 60s to fool the Russians into believing we could launch rockets? They were great. Very believable. Man, we could really pull a prank back then, as a country.