Apollo 18 – “There’s a Reason We’ve Never Gone Back to the Moon”

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Apollo 18 is one of the most awaited movies for 2011. Perhaps one of the reasons why many movie enthusiasts are very much enthusiastic in waiting for the showing of the movie is because of the various changes with its release date. Originally slated for release last March 2011, date of showing was moved to April 2011. Before the actual date arrived, it was again changed to January 2012, which was then again changed to August 2011. Finally, the much-anticipated movie is currently scheduled for release on September 2, 2011.

Meet the People Behind the Movie Apollo 18

Apollo 18 is a found-footage movie written by the fresh-writing tandem of Brian Miller and Cory Goodman. During the early plans, the movie would be helmed by Trevor Cawood. However, final plans by producer, Timur Bekmambetov paved the way for giving the helm to Spanish-language director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, who previously directed the award-winning film, King of the Hill.

What is the movie all about?

It is a Sci-fi horror-thriller movie that is trying to be in some ways relating itself on real events that happened on the Moon. The tagline “There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the moon” suggests that something was not relayed to public awareness. The movie evolves with showing the actual reason behind the desistance of NASA to move on with other lunar missions. It tries to imply that there are some happenings that were concealed pertaining to the unrevealed mission to space during the 70s.

Shot in mockumentary-found footage style, one can easily connect to the idea that the movie is an imaginary hypothesis of the real Apollo 18 mission. Launched in December of the year 1974, the alleged mission team so they say, never managed to come back. In consequence to this theory, the plot of the story is to relay the actual reason behind the lack of enthusiasm of the government of the United States to form another team that will travel to the moon.

Apollo 18 – The Clear Plot

The movie is about the post-Apollo 17 journey to the Moon. Supposedly, the US Government worked on their way to hide the truth that creatures that appear like parasites attacked the crew of the Apollo 18 task force. This is somehow easy to grasp by watching the trailer of the movie, where an American astronaut found a Soviet Lunar Lander on the moon’s surface.

The Movie Style…

The movie being a mockumentary found footage Sci-fi horror thriller movie attempts to base their plot on an allegedly recently found footage that was lost during the Apollo 18 mission.