Saturday, December 16, 2006

The Astronaut Farmer

Warner Brothers has sneaked one by us! This new movie, the Astronaut Farmer, looks to be released some time next year (Hollywood.com slates it for late February release). The film stars Billy Bob Thornton (remember Armageddon?) and Virginia Madsen doing what several new private space ventures have been working to do: build their own rocket and launch into space.

Synopsis:
An astronaut is forced to leave NASA to save his family farm, but he continues to dream of space travel and sets out to build a rocket inside his barn. Though his neighbors consider him an oddity, the media considers him a story, and the government considers him a threat, nothing can deter him from his dream to break through the atmosphere and orbit the earth.

1 comments:

karen said...

I got a free ticket to check out the first cut of it last summer, but there were so many people that we got cut off. Oh well. Free preview tiks are one of the benefits of living in LA.