Moon - Trailer

I really love this more I see of it, I think this could be a gem of a movie, and with old school FX too ! Click the poster for the trailer.

Moon - 70's and 80's filmaking returns !?

I did a post last March here about the upcoming SF Film Moon being directed in the UK by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie. The film really looks like a return to old school filmaking in a lot of ways, Jones had already said he was influenced by the films of the 70's such as Silent Running and Alien, and from these pictures of the sets and on set graphics you can really see that, the markings below really harken back to those done by Ron Cobb for the Nostromo in Alien

Moon also is using quite extensive miniature work to create it's FX, these are being handled by Bill Pearson who way back helped create the FX for Alien and Outland and more recently the miniature work for Casino Royale and AVP: Alien vs. Predator.
Below is pictured one of the Helium 3 Harvester's which works on the moon surface collecting the rocks to extract the Helium 3 gas, a company called Think Tank Studios have created set, prop and vehicle designs in CG which have been recreated into miniatures and full size sets.

I'm really looking forward to this film, it looks like it'll be very character driven due to the nature of the story with just a core group of actors. And looking forward to seeing FX that combine old and new techniques.

If you want to see more pictures of the sets and miniatures then you can go to the Think Tank Studios site here where you can view them or dowload Zip files with higher rez pictures.

Moon - Film 2008 set report

Moon is an SF film currently shooting at Shepperton Studios. Directed by Duncan Jones the film stars Sam Rockwell.

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period.
IMDB

Jones is the son of David Bowie, his full name being Duncan Zowie Heywood Jones, know to some as Zowie Bowie. Jones says he a huge fan of Alien, Outland and Silent Running and that's the sort of look and feel he's going for. The sets for the moonbase have a nice look from what we got to see in the report, one or two of them reminded me of the Hyperdrive sets, and like those sets which I visited during series 1 in Manchester, the sets on Moon look to be very self enclosed. They appear to have marking that are very reminiscent of those in Alien and Outland.
The report said that the set shooting was almost complete and then they were moving onto green screen work. The film has a release date of May 25th 2009, so quite a while to wait. I'd love to see a really nice low key SF film with an interesting premise rather than an overblown FX epic. Hopefully Moon will be a good movie, I think Sam Rockwell is a cool actor, and the report says in this film he gets to play clones.