Scarlett Johansson & Channing Tatum Weigh in on ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Conspiracy Theories | THR News

Scarlett Johansson & Channing Tatum Weigh in on ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Conspiracy Theories | THR News

was such a great script you just don’t read them that often what if the moon landing was a hoax that’s the question explored in the new film Fly Me to the Moon a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 Moon launch during the space race of the late 1960s producer and star Scarlet Johansson who plays marketing specialist Kelly Jones opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about how the film came to be so I have a production company called these pictures and we developed this story from an original idea like that we had in our within our company and then we hired Rose Gilroy to write the script and she did such a phenomenal job um with the tone of it that when I read it it was just it was so entertaining I loved the read so much that I couldn’t not play the character of Kelly because it was so great it was like I couldn’t think of I was thinking like who else could do it and of course I have like many peers that are incredibly talented that could do it and then I would just be jealous of them and so I was like I can’t I’m not going to give this to some else Johansson’s co-star Channing Tatum who plays launch director Cole Davis weighed in on what he felt made the film’s script unique it’s not a pre-existing IP it’s completely original but it also has like it has characters that are that really talk to each other you know there was the dialogue is is really really well done and and like the character I guess development without making it all sort of over rotten and like heavy it keeps it light and fun but yet keeping the Dr drama and the dram The Dramatics intact director Greg brante also spoke about what made him want to helm the project I mean it’s not that often that I’m sent material that was first of all was Scarlet was starring in it she was producing and she was throwing her weight behind a big budget original drama comedy romance you know it had everything and honestly those are that’s it reminded me of the kind of movies I used to go see every weekend as a kid that Studios were making all the time then we can’t afford to lose to the Russians we need to shoot backup version of the moonlanding following the release of the film’s trailer online some conspiracy theorists further questioned the Integrity of the real moonlanding for both of you what’s your take on conspiracy theorists who have watched the trailer and said oh see the moon landing is fake I’m so not a conspiracy theorist I’m like very pragmatic and I’m like science I believe in science um but uh you know if that’s like getting if people are watching the trailer and that’s what they’re taking then I guess we’re doing our job yeah you know I I don’t know I guess there there’s part of me that goes I don’t care if it was or if it wasn’t like you know it’s so smart if we faked it I think that was probably one of the most like gangster moves that’s ever been pulled on on like the world because it was just a you know it was a race to the moon and we won theoretically um but I I I think we wi I personally think we went I think that the people that I talked to that actually were there there you know like it’s not like they they could do that they they spent so much money there was so many people involved we we people really saw the Rockets go up one of the reasons I was so excited to work on the film was NASA’s involvement from the very beginning and I think why NASA gave it their stamp of approval was they knew that even though we were taking a look at one of the OG conspiracy theories that two things were happening one it’s ultimately movie about why the truth’s important and it’s Al it’s also a movie that celebrates you know that celebrates what was accomplished it was arguably the greatest accomplishment of humankind at that moment and probably still and certainly the largest televised event you know about it and uh and and I my hope is when people see the it’s not so much what they think prior to the movie but when they see the movie that it encourages them to go and that when they leave they leave with a sense of like wow we did that fly me to the moon flies into theaters July 12th for more on the film head to th.com for The Hollywood Reporter news I’m Tiffany Taylor

What if the moon landing really was a hoax? That’s the question explored in the new film ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon launch during the Space Race of the late 1960s. Stars Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, as well as director Greg Berlanti, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what drew them to the script. Plus, they even shared their thoughts on moon landing conspiracy theorists. ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ flies into theaters July 12.

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