Moon details

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 18 years ago

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

We’ve been reporting on the Duncan Jones’ sci-fi flick MOON for some time now, with only a vague idea of what it’s about, other than “Sam Rockwell stranded alone on the moon and weird shite happens”… What kind of weird shit, you ask? How about two Sam Rockwell’s?! Enough to drive any man mad…

Rockwell talked to Sci Fi Wire about what we can expect to see from the mysterious MOON: “It’s about a guy stranded on the moon for three years, like a Robinson Crusoe kind of guy. He’s mining a product called helium 3 on the surface of the moon for fuel for the Earth, an energy source. Then he meets his clone, and they have to deal with each other. So it’s sort of an homage to Silent Running and a little Blade Runner, as far as the replicants and stuff. It’s like that, but it’s a very simple kind of Robinson Crusoe story. It’s this guy pretty much stranded. It’s like a Twilight Zone episode.”

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