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Robert Z. Pearlman

'Fly Me to the Moon' trailer mixes real-life Apollo history with moon landing hoax

If you are even a casual space history enthusiast, watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Fly Me to the Moon" might leave you thinking that it is an entire work of fiction.

And for the most part, you would be correct.

As the trailer reveals and Columbia Pictures and Apple Original Films' synopsis reads, "Fly Me to the Moon" is a "comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA's historic Apollo 11 moon landing." Scarlett Johansson plays the fictional Kelly Jones, a marketing maven who is brought in to fix NASA's public image, and in the process, "wreaks havoc" on the task set forth for launch director Cole Davis (Channing Tatum).

"I work here now, to sell the moon," says Jones (Johansson), explaining why she is at NASA to Davis (Tatum) in the trailer.

Channing Tatum and Ray Romano in the Launch Control Center in a scence from the new movie "Fly Me to the Moon."  (Image credit: Sony Pictures)
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