MOON: Lego Lunar Rover by Ron Haller

Posted on January 11, 2012 by unklerupert

Meant to pop this one up a while back when MOON Concept Artist & VFX Supervisor Gavin Rothery pointed it out, which is some compliment to start with, as Gavin designed it!

A wonderful LEGO MOON Lunar Rover by Ron Haller, and not the first time we have seen a LEGO tribute to Duncan Jones’ 2009 debut feature, we’ve also got a LEGO Sam Bell to go with it

Make sure you pop over to Ron’s LEGO creation site for more pics of the MOON Lunar Rover, and many more Sci-Fi related LEGO vehicles, amazing stuff!

Also check out Gavin’s site for his online portfolio, and a fantastic Making Of MOON blog for lot’s of behind the scenes info.

MOON: Time To Remember Poster

Posted on December 20, 2011 by unklerupert

I was just thinking we hadn’t had a nice poster for a while, when this one arrives from Ricky Plows via Twitter to MOON Director Duncan Jones.

Ricky was kind enough to provide some detail on the design (cus I asked, like) Which I think just makes it even nicer.

The silhouette is made up of Sams memorys from earth. Hes looking into his own eyes and seeing the same memories.

They are positioned to make an hourglass, representing his time left on the moon. Thanks for taking an interest

Ricky has also provided a larger version over on his on-line portfolio, along with another MOON poster

Happy Halloween: Sam Bell Whittles A Lunar Industries Pumpkin

Posted on October 31, 2011 by unklerupert

Always great to come across an out take from MOON, and here we have the result of a bit of pumpkin whittling from Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell while up on Sarang one Halloween, either that or it’s the result of some very handy carving from our own Sam Bell, Charles Kline from Colorado, USA.

Charles is an old friend of the blog, check out his amazing Sam Bell uniform if you’ve not seen it already.

Have a great Halloween everyone, and rest assured, if you are unable to get out Trick or Treating, Lunar Industries will be able to provide someone to do it for you, as you, while you have a…sleep…

Poll: Would You Like To Be Able To Buy MOON Merchandise?

Posted on September 14, 2011 by unklerupert

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Since the release of MOON in 2009, there has been the odd request for a MOON merchandise. Unfortunately, there is no official merchandise available at the moment.

No official t-shirts, posters, badges, patches, mugs, robotic assistants, flowbees or sealed bags of beans exist. We occasionally manage to find some promotional bits & bobs to send out to competitions winners, or auction off for charity. But nothing you can actually order online, or go buy from a shop.

BUT WAIT! For MOON Director Duncan Jones has just told this:

There’s a CHANCE we may finally get to sell Moon posters & Collectors toys.

Basically we need to show there are at least 500 fans out there who would buy a Gerty desktop toy or a collectors Sam piece.

So, we’d like to get an idea of how many of you would be interested in buying some MOON gear, and what you’d like to be able to buy if it were possible. Please complete the poll below, and leave a comment, because I’ll be doing a random draw on the comments on Friday 16th at 23:00, and sending the winner a MOON promo T-Shirt (S/M or L) and a set of 4 MOON patches.

Many thanks in advance, I’m sure there are at least 10 of you out there, hopefully more

MOON Screening At Denver Film Society Sci-Fi Series With Ka Chun Yu

Posted on July 1, 2011 by unklerupert

Any of you lucky enough to be near Denver between July 6th and August 10th will have the chance to see some great Sci-Fi courtesy of the Sci-Fi Film Series Presented By Denver Museum Of Nature & Science And The Denver Film Society.

The key date from our point of view is obviously a screening on August 3rd at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax of Duncan Jones’ MOON starring Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, isolated employee of Lunar Industries, alone on the Moon with only the company of his robotic assistant GERTY (Kevin Spacey) to see him through his three year contract mining valuable Helium 3 to provide energy to the people of Earth. As Sam approaches the end of his contract, with thoughts of home providing hope, things take a turn for the worse, and Sam discovers not all is as it seems.

Always great to see some of you getting the opportunity to see Duncan’s award winning debut on the big screen, as for many, their first experience of MOON may have been home viewing due to the limited original theatrical release.

An added bonus with this Sci-Fi Film Series screening is a post-film discussion with Ka Chun Yu, PhD, curator of space sciences at Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

As well as MOON, the Sci-Fi series will also be screening classics of the genre such as Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyessy, Ridely Scott’s Alien & Alfonso Cuaron’s Children Of Men, most screenings also include a post film discussion with Denver Museum Of Nature & Science staff.

Dates and times available on the Sci-Fi Series programme guide.

Thanks to Ryan Boulding for the heads up

MOON: Sam Bell Spotted At Starfest 2011 In Denver

Posted on April 19, 2011 by unklerupert

We were alerted yesterday to the fact that Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell, may have been in the Denver area of the United States over the weekend, sightings had been confirmed in and around the Starfest Entertainment Convention 2011.

We’ve obviously been wondering what he’s been up to lately. Further investigations however have revealed that our search for Sam will continue, in the meantime we can let you know how the sighting came about in the first place, with the help of MOON fan, Charles Kline…

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MOON: Fan Art Sam Bell Meets LucasArts

Posted on March 21, 2011 by unklerupert

This is so fantastic, I can’t type quick enough to get the post finished and hit “publish”. Danish MOON fan Mads Johansen has only gone and created an image of what a MOON point & click adventure would look like, if created by those wonderful people over at LucasArts using the SCUMM creation tool, famously used for such classics as The Monkey Island series, Full Throttle, The Dig and many more. Games that stole many hours of my youth (and admittedly may continue to do so as they are re-released for the touch device generation of handheld devices)

Mads Johansen - SCUMM MOON 2011

Mads explains:

If I played this game back in ´91, I think my brain would literally blow up.
It just started with me wanting to do some nice SCUMM fan-art, but the further I got with this, the more I felt that the narrative of this particular flick would fit awesomely with the whole point’n'clicky thing.

Except for maybe the lack of a character gallery. It was pretty tough for me completing games like Secret of Monkey Island, because as a 12 year old danish kid, I didn’t really have a clue what a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle was, for example… and the artwork was also pretty tough to decrypt at times… but now I know how hard it is to do Sam Bell, when you only have about 12×12 pixels to do it on Anyway, hope you like this one… I might do more, I dunno yet.

Yes, Mads. Please, we’d love to see more Head over to Mads’ sketch blog for more of his amazing artwork. I’m off to play some Monkey Island!

UPDATE: No way we could let this pass, comment from SCUMM creator, and computer gaming Legend Ron Gilbert:

Moon would have made a great SCUMM game.

MOON Director Duncan Jones has also been overwhelmed by Mads artwork:

I want to play that!!! I want to hear Clint Mansell’s score in 8-bit audio!! Seriously.. that was one of the best things I have seen in ever. That needs to be an Iphone game…IPad too…Seriously thinking that if there was ever to be a direct Moon sequel, it may work best as a point and click adventure.

Finally tweeting back to Ron Gilbert:

you stole too many hours of my youth to count. Thank you.

That all goes way beyond awesome *collapses*

Hugo Takes Up Residence In LA

Posted on January 6, 2011 by unklerupert

It was back in September 2010 that MOON had the honor of winning a prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, a fantastic achievement, beating fellow nominees Avatar, District 9, Star Trek & Up.

We featured a lovely pic of the award in the original announcement, designed by Nick Stathopoulos, described as “An organic Art Nouveau Hugo”

And now the award itself has found it’s home with Duncan in LA, pictured here with Sam Bell’s original suit from MOON. What a stunna!

: Duncan Jones Hugo Award – By Rodene Ronquillo

: Duncan Jones Hugo Award Takes Flight – By Rodene Ronquillo

Photography by Rodene Ronquillo

Allcity Media Show Giant Sam Bell & MOON Posters For Sale!

Posted on September 14, 2010 by unklerupert

How would you like to be greeted by a 10 ft high Sam Bell upon arriving to work every day? This is what AllCity Media’s David Frost and colleagues have to look up to every morning.

MOON: Giant Sam Bell at Allcity Media - London

No bad thing as far as I am concerned, and I’m sure the majority of you would like to see something similar up on your walls. Well now you can.

AllCity Media recently initiated a Redrawn programme as part of their 10th Anniversary, including limited runs of two MOON pieces by Martin Ansin, and also featuring a wonderful interpretation by Kevin Tong. AllCity MD, David Frost, was kind enough to drop us a line with details on the company, the Redrawn initiative, and the MOON print you see next to their giant Sam Bell. Continue reading →

MOON / 2001 Double Bill At The Prince Charles Cinema London

Posted on August 5, 2010 by unklerupert

MOON & 2001: a space odyssey - at the Prince Charles Cinema

Unable to attend the fantastic double bill of MOON and 2001: a space odyssey at the Prince Charles Cinema in London last night (4th August 2010). Had a table tennis tournament with GERTY. Luckily we had our old friend CaptainDisco in attendance to tell us a bit about the evening…