Is Apollo 10 1/2 Based On A True Story?
Is Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood based on a true story? Netflix's animated movie comes from acclaimed Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood) and utilizes the technique known as rotoscoping similar to his films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. That means Apollo 10 1/2 was filmed with live actors, whose performances were then traced over to give the character animation a more realistic appearance.
The movie features the voices of past Linklater collaborators Jack Black, Glen Powell, and Bill Wise, along with Zachary Levi and Milo Coy, in the story of a young boy recruited by NASA for a trip to the Moon. The solo mission, called Apollo 10 1/2, is sort of a secret test run before Apollo 11's mission. Interwoven with the kid's fantasy of going to outer space is a more down-to-earth tale of a boy growing up in the late 1960s against the backdrop of the first manned mission to the Moon. While that second, more grounded part of the movie is based around the true events of Apollo 11, that doesn't mean other parts of the story aren't real.
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In the summer of 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 11 mission that saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins make it into lunar orbit, with the former two ultimately landing on the Moon. That mission inspired Richard Linklater, as it did many people around the world. The future filmmaker resided in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, where NASA's Mission Control Center housed the flight control for America's space program. Linklater grew up to become one of the most prolific independent filmmakers, and many of his movies have drawn inspiration from his own life, as with the coming-of-age classics Dazed and
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