Did Stanley Kubrick Film The First Moonwalk? (Sure, sure he did….)
Posted in Television on November 16th 2003 by Randy Reichardt:: I watched The Passionate Eye tonight, which featured the fake documentary, “Dark Side Of The Moon“, written and directed by William Karel. It’s a brilliant mock-umentary, not unlike Peter (LOTR) Jackson’s Forgotten Silver. I’m sure more than a few people watching it across Canada actually believed it, even with opening and closing remarks from the host, Michaelle Jean, who made it rather clear that the film is a hoax. The film tells the story of how Richard Nixon, fearing that no live pictures could be sent from the moon after the landing in July, 1969, asked Stanley Kubrick to film the moonwalk on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey In return, five years later, Kubrick borrows a special NASA-developed lens, to film Barry Lyndon.
Uh huh.
The film, originally titled Opération Lune, is made more realistic by the appearances of Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, her brother (and Kubrick’s exec producer of his last five films), Jan Harlan, and – get this – Donald Rumsfeld, Alexander Haig, Richard Helms, Lawrence Eagleburger, and – yes – Henry Kissinger, all playing “themselves” in the movie.
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