2024-07-31
35 分钟Director Greg Berlanti discusses his new film, Fly Me to the Moon, with fellow Director Dan Gilroy in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses how his past work in film and television lead to him creating this film, utilizing authentic digital and practical production design to recreate aspects of the Apollo missions not seen before onscreen, and working with his actors to channel the tone of a classic workplace romantic comedy genre. The film tells the story of Kelly, a marketing director, who’s brought on to fix NASA’s waning public image against the wishes of NASA’s launch director, Cole. But when the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Kelly and Cole must work together and stage a fake landing as the launch grows nearer. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2024/August2024/FlyMe2DMoon_QnA_0724
I was really conscious of scale in this movie.
We were on that firing room where they launched the rocket.
So often in Apollo movies or docs, they're really chronicling what's happening out of Houston once the rocket gets launched.
So we reconstructed this whole actually firing room to scale, and we put the set on rockers, and we had all the video screens showing what was being dramatized, what was being shown that day.
So we brought all the background in and we launched the rocket, and they all got to feel what it felt like to launch that rocket.
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In this episode, a 1960s marketing maven is tasked with staging a fake moon landing in director Greg Berlanti's romantic comedy Fly me to the Moon.
The film tells the story of Kelly, a marketing director tasked with fixing NASA's waning public image against the wishes of their launch director Cole.
But when the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Kelly and Cole must work together and stage a fake moon landing as the launch grows nearer.
In addition to Fly me to the Moon, Valenti's other directorial credits include the feature films Love, Simon, life as we know it, and the Broken Hearts, a romantic comedy.
He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television limited Series for his 2012 episode of the miniseries Political Animals.
Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Berlanti spoke with director Dan Gilroy about filming Fly me to the Moon.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
Hello.
Thanks for coming out tonight.
What a hell of a movie in today's age.
What a great way to see a well produced, big scale movie on a big screen in a beautiful theater.
I think, unfortunately, in ten years we might look back fondly, and so that was an amazing experience.
We used to see things in big screens, but great movie.
I really loved it.