#MAN ON THE MOON MOVIE TRUTH MOVIE#
None other than Stanley Kubrick, director of ' 2001: A Space Odyssey'.Ī significant portion of the movie takes place on the surface of the moon, where astronauts discover a black monolith that holds the key to mankind's evolution. What's more, they had a suspect in Hollywood who helped NASA to do it. While 'Capricorn One' was a Hollywood thriller story of a faked space mission, conspiracy theorists persisted with their beliefs on the moon landing. So I was watching these simulations and I wondered what would happen if someone faked a whole story."ĭespite the fact that Capricorn One portrayed NASA in a negative light, the agency actually loaned producers some of their equipment - including a prototype of the lunar module that landed on the moon. My generation was brought up to believe television was true, and that was bullshit too. I grew up in the generation where my parents basically believed if it was in the newspaper it was true. Louis where there was a simulation of what was going on. "Whenever there was something on the news about a space shuttle, they would cut to a studio in St. In an interview with Empire Magazine in 2014, Hyams elaborated his thinking. Hyams' initial thinking on the project came from the fact that the only verification, at the time, was simply television footage. However, due to faulty equipment, NASA instead opts to fake the event using a fake set in a base in the desert.
The movie starred OJ Simpson, James Brolin and Sam Waterston as three astronauts who were originally intended to be the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. What really fired up the conspiracy theories concerning the moon landing was Peter Hyams' 1978 paranoia-laced thriller, 'Capricorn One'. 'Diamonds Are Forever', released just two years after the moon landing, featured a sly joke which saw Bond stealing a moon buggy to make his escape. Stanley Kubrick, 'The Shining', and the moon landing conspiracy theory A long-running conspiracy theory maintains that Stanley Kubrick helped NASA to fake the Moon landing.Ĭonspiracy theories about the moon landing have been around for as long as the event itself.Īlmost as soon as it occurred, hoaxes concerning the moon landing had made their way into popular culture.
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