Barry Levinson to direct planned new Apollo 11 limited series

[Bob Jersey]

"One Giant Leap," with writer/showrunner Stephen Kronish, Kevin Costner, and Mike Medavoy on board, looks at the mission from a different angle, stressing personality conflicts within the flight team, and how a NASA psychiatrist’s predictions of disaster for Buzz Aldrin were ignored by her superiors... casting main parts comes before any offers to platforms...

https://deadline.com/2021/09/barry-levinson-apollo-11-limited-series-kevin-costner-stephen-kronish-1234825083/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

Having read “The Right Stuff”, I cannot imagine any revelatory perspective on the mission. I feel like Costner shouldn’t be a part of this and hope he will end his involvement before it moves into production. 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[PGage]

Hmm. I too have read the Right Stuff (a couple of times), the Armstrong biography, the history of the Apollo program, and seen the Tom Hanks HBO mini-series, and I have always felt there was a hell of a lot about the 11 story that is unknown and untold, in large part because of reticent Armstrong was. 

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[JW]

> ... looks at the mission from a different angle, stressing

> personality conflicts within the flight team, and how a

> NASA psychiatrist’s predictions of disaster for Buzz Aldrin

> were ignored by her superiors

Please refresh my memory. What kind of disaster was Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission?

The idea that not everyone on the project got along isn't shocking, and I'm really not interested in the soap opera version of the moon landing.

[Paul Murray]

All I recall was the drama over who would be the first one out. Aldrin's father (IIRC) publicly pushed for Buzz, and NASA shut that down by announcing it would be Neil.

Buzz's real problems started after he got home, but that's not exactly a secret. No one had done anything to prepare them for the ridiculous amount of fame they achieved.

And this: " The series will also look at the Soviet Union’s attempt to destroy Apollo 11 on its way to the moon..." "Destroy?" Well, they tried to steal its thunder by landing an unmanned mission to grab a sample and return first. 

Levinson's presence gives me hope, but I guess I'm wary. According to the article, Kevin, Costner is just EPing. Hopefully it will be better than DiCaprio's redo of The Right Stuff, which landed (ahem) with a thud.

BTW, the 2019 BBC program "8 Days: to the Moon and Back" (which aired on PBS) was a surprisingly effective look at the mission. The actors lipsync to the actual recordings -- including conversations amongst themselves, which I had never heard. The only interpersonal "drama" is Collins and Aldrin teasing Armstrong early in the mission about him having the least time in space of the three. I was skeptical of how it would work, but came away impressed and have rewatched it since.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-film-8-days-to-the-moon-and-back-apollo-11