'Fly Me to the Moon' Stars Scarlett Johansson & Channing Tatum Weigh in on Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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What if the moon landing really was a hoax? That's the question explored in the new film 'Fly Me to the Moon,' a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon launch during the Space Race of the late 1960s. Stars Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, as well as director Greg Berlanti, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what drew them to the script. Plus, they even shared their thoughts on moon landing conspiracy theorists. 'Fly Me to the Moon' flies into theaters July 12.

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00:00It was such a great script, you just don't read them that often.

00:05What if the moon landing was a hoax?

00:07That's the question explored in the new film Fly Me to the Moon,

00:10a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon launch

00:14during the space race of the late 1960s.

00:16Producer and star Scarlett Johansson, who plays marketing specialist Kelly Jones,

00:21opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about how the film came to be.

00:24So I have a production company called These Pictures,

00:26and we developed this story from an original idea that we had within our company.

00:33And then we hired Rose Gilroy to write the script,

00:36and she did such a phenomenal job with the tone of it

00:40that when I read it, it was so entertaining.

00:43I loved the read so much that I couldn't not play the character of Kelly

00:48because it was so great.

00:49I was thinking who else could do it,

00:52and of course I have many peers that are incredibly talented that could do it,

00:56and then I would just be jealous of them.

00:57And so I was like, I can't, I'm not going to give this to somebody else.

01:00Johansson's co-star Channing Tatum, who plays launch director Cole Davis,

01:04weighed in on what he felt made the film's script unique.

01:07It's not a pre-existing IP, it's completely original,

01:11but it also has characters that really talk to each other.

01:15The dialogue is really, really well done,

01:19and the character, I guess development,

01:22without making it all sort of over-rotten and heavy,

01:26it keeps it light and fun,

01:27but yet keeping the drama and the dramatics intact.

01:32Director Greg Berlanti also spoke about what made him want to helm the project.

01:35I mean, it's not that often that I'm sent material that was,

01:38first of all, Scarlett was starring in it,

01:40she was producing,

01:41and she was throwing her weight behind a big-budget,

01:45original drama, comedy, romance, you know,

01:49it had everything.

01:50And honestly, those are, that's,

01:52it reminded me of the kind of movies I used to go see every weekend

01:55as a kid that studios were making all the time then.

01:58We can't afford to lose to the Russians.

02:01We need to shoot a backup version of the moon landing.

02:08Following the release of the film's trailer online,

02:11some conspiracy theorists further questioned the integrity of the real moon landing.

02:15For both of you, what's your take on conspiracy theorists

02:17who have watched the trailer and said,

02:19oh, see, the moon landing is fake?

02:21I'm so not a conspiracy theorist.

02:23I'm like very pragmatic and I'm like,

02:25science, I believe in science.

02:28But, you know, if that's like getting,

02:31if people are watching the trailer and that's what they're taking,

02:33then I guess we're doing our job.

02:35Yeah, you know, I don't know.

02:36I guess there's part of me that goes,

02:39I don't care if it was or if it wasn't.

02:42Like, you know, it's so smart.

02:43If we faked it,

02:44I think that was probably one of the most, like,

02:46gangster moves that's ever been pulled on, like, the world.

02:50Because it was just a, you know,

02:51it was a race to the moon and we won, theoretically.

02:55But I think we went.

02:57I personally think we went.

02:58I think that the people that I talked to that actually were there,

03:03you know, like, it's not like they could do that.

03:06They spent so much money.

03:07There were so many people involved.

03:10People really saw the rockets go up.

03:12One of the reasons I was so excited to work on the film

03:14was NASA's involvement from the very beginning.

03:17And I think why NASA gave it their stamp of approval

03:19was they knew that even though we were taking a look

03:24at one of the OG conspiracy theories,

03:27that two things were happening.

03:28One, it's ultimately a movie about why the truth's important.

03:32And it's also a movie that celebrates, you know,

03:36that celebrates what was accomplished.

03:38It was arguably the greatest accomplishment of humankind

03:42at that moment and probably still

03:44and certainly the largest televised event, you know, about it.

03:49And my hope is when people see the film,

03:52it's not so much what they think prior to the movie,

03:55but when they see the movie, that it encourages them to go

03:58and that when they leave,

03:59they leave with a sense of like, wow, we did that.

04:02Fly Me to the Moon flies into theaters July 12th.

04:04For more on the film, head to THR.com.

04:07For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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