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Release year: 2009

Storyline

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth, parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our plane

Top credits

Directors

Duncan Jones

Writers

Cast

Sam Rockwell — Sam Bell
Kevin Spacey — GERTY
Dominique McElligott — Tess Bell
Rosie Shaw — Little Eve

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Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Just before Sam leaves for Earth, he is carrying a cylindrical object under his left arm. In the director's commentary, Duncan Jones says that it is a storage canister containing $15 million worth of Helium 3, and that selling it would allow Sam to live well on Earth over his 3-year lifespan. This plot point didn't make the final cut.

• Originally, writer/director Duncan Jones wanted to cast Sam Rockwell in what eventually became Mute (2018). However, Jones and Rockwell could never come to an agreement on which part he should play, and scheduling conflicts made an immediate collaboration on that film difficult. Because they got on so well and Jones wanted to work with Rockwell so much, he asked him what would interest him; when Rockwell named the blue collar characters from Outland (1981), Silent Running (1972) and Alien (1979) as the sort of role that he wanted to try, Jones wrote this film for him. Rockwell would later make an uncredited cameo in Mute as his Sam Bell character from Moon.

• Kevin Spacey read the script and agreed to voice GERTY, but only when the film was finished and if he liked it. Having loved it, he recorded his lines in half a day.