Check out Chris’s online portfolio for more examples of his work. Still gobsmacked at the quality of work inspired by MOON, please let us know if you know of any other examples of these retro posters
Wehay! From Koch Media, here is the German MOON trailer ahead of the July Cinema release. Looking like MOON will now be opening on 60 screens! Good Times
In einer nicht allzu weit entfernten Zukunft ist das Energieproblem auf der Erde endlich gelöst, seit die Firma Lunar Industries auf dem Mond den Brennstoff Helium-3 abbaut und es zur Benutzung auf der Erde abtransportieren lässt
Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) ist auf dem Mond stationiert, um die einsame Aufgabe des Treibstoffabbaus zu überwachen. Nach knapp drei Jahren auf der Mondbasis führt er seinen Job nur noch mechanisch aus und verbringt die meiste Zeit mit dem Gedanken an seine bevorstehende Rückkehr zur Erde, um endlich seine Frau und ihre gemeinsame Tochter wiederzusehen. Aber zwei Wochen vor seiner Abreise beginnt Sam seltsame Dinge zu sehen und zu hören. Nachdem dann eine Routinekontrolle schief geht, befürchtet er, dass Lunar Industries anscheinend ganz eigene Vorstellungen von seinem Verbleib hat…
We loves the fan created objects inspired by MOON. Drawings, paintings, raps, movies. But what to do when it comes to bath time? How do we share our love of Sam Bell when in the tub? With a Sam Bell bath duck of course! Ashley Rautenstrauch, we salute you, you are…dare we say…QUACKERS!
We’ve had plenty of MOON inspired fan contributions from drawings and paintings, to short fan made movies, have not had a song so far though, until now.
MC Matches from Houston, TX has sent us his remix of Lupe Fiasco’s “Shining Down” featuring a verse inspired by Sam Bell’s time on Sarang…
We asked MC Matches what was it about MOON that inspired him to create:
The movie really related to me first of all because I’m a sci fi/ digital age guru. I actually work in the energy industry, and it is a well known fact that oil and gas will eventually deplete, and alternative energy such as wind will be our primary source. This movie displays truly what humans will start doing, branching off to new planets just to find energy.
The movie can be related to what is going on in the energy industry at the moment, we spend time and resources training individuals to work in remote locations such as offshore, when if the technology existed we could just send clones. Then it’s a question human life, and do you really want to create life and abuse the human race by lieing and telling them that they are on a 3 year assignment and that they will be going home to a wife that is really dead? When Sam finds out the truth he is crushed, which reminds us that human life is not to be toggled with in this manner.
I love this movie because it opens our eyes to what we should expect to see in the future. Not to mention the most creative minds on earth came up with the plot to this film, and when I saw it I knew I had to be a part of it in some way.
This post has been a long time coming (well since last Wednesday 17th March) because it’s been quite hard to know where to start. Such was the fantasticyness of the Jameson Cult Film screening of MOON at the Royal Institution in London.
As you may recall, we first raised a call to arms back in January 2010 when we discovered via our old friend Ben Mortimer that Jamesons were running a vote off between MOON, Donny Darko & War Of The Worlds (1953). The prize being a screening of the winning film at a very prestigious venue, The Royal Institution, London. So, we spread the word via all means possible to encourage all MOON fans to vote, and blow me down, we scored a massive 59% of the vote and won!!. Our gobs was smackered, and we started to get in touch with the wonderful Jameson account Manager Mr. Mauricio Samayoa from We Are Social to find out the what was what’s.
Now, we knew MOON was popular, and as all true cult films do, it has quickly grown beyond it’s initial theatrical and home releases to build a fantastic following of lovely people (like you, you’re my favourite btw), but I don’t think even Jamesons were prepared for the demand on tickets, as word spread on our platforms of choice (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs) the initial demand for ticket registration caused the hosting server to take a breather & nip out for a cup of tea FANTASTIC
The fantastic team at Jameson Cult Film Club got going with making arrangements, and as much as we were aware of the venu and some details of the evenings events, there were some suprises (from both sides) that elevated the evening beyond what any of us could have hoped for.
Do you mind if I takes a breather? Thanks, I’ll just grab a mug of splosh, you have a look at these rather good pics from @unclewilco and I’ll get back to you just underneath in 5 mins? Ta
Good aren’t they? Hopefully give you an idea of the effort that both Jamesons & The Royal Institute went to, to create a very special evening.
We all started arriving at around 18:30 for a 19:00 start with a great buzz building outside, and what an honour it was to enter the building that has born witness to some of the greatest scientific discoveries for more than 200 years! Members of the public entering these hallowed halls is no surprise however, as the RI supports public engagement with science through a programme of lectures, the most famous being those you may have seen (or been lucky to attend) on the telly box at Christmas, funnily enough called the ‘Royal Institution Christmas Lectures’ Check out their site for events and details on the most famous exhibit, a reconstruction of Michael Faraday’s laboratory.
Upon ascending a curving marble staircase to the 1st floor, it soon became clear why we were there though, corridors lit in a mysterious spacey green tint, beautiful space ladies with silver hair directing us towards the Space Bar where we were met by a superb array of Jameson Whiskey beverages, I plumped for the ginger, but I did hear mention of some kind of pickle licking thing en all? It was not all guests though. When Jamesons put on these events, they pull out all the stops, we had surly looking Sam Bell 2 walking about (chap refused to crack despite being provoked) and a sad Sam 1 reclined on a sofa looking worse for wear (he was also spotted later tending his plants) This all added to the atmosphere of the evening, along with the decking out of the place as MOON base Sarang, entrances to the main auditorium labelled BAY 1>3. Plenty of Lunar Industries signs up as well to make it clear where we were.
The building of atmosphere continued into the main auditorium. As we took our seats and looked up at th screen we were greeted by the site of an astronaut suspended from the ceiling, an animatronic one we all assumed, until he was lowered to the floor and made his exit, in slow motion, zero gravity style, big applause.
Lights down and we were eased into the screening itself with a support short ‘Blake’s Junction 7‘ very funny, disturbed by my feelings towards MacKenzie Crook as Servalan though!
Then we got the main feature, Duncan Jones’ MOON, and time to sit back and marvel at the achievement of team MOON, to make such a fantastic film, with such tight budget constraints, and create an instant cult classic. I also had to prevent myself from tapping MOON’s very own Benedict Wong on the shoulder each time he appeared on screen to say “that’s you that is” as he sat in front of me, cause, well, he knew that
Was great to discover afterwards that 2 of the peeps I went in with were seeing MOON for the first time (lucky buggers) and met many more afterwards the same, all mighty impressed with the film, and Sam Rockwell’s stunning performance
So with all the effort and surprises from Jamesons and the fantastically helpful Mauricio Samayoa how could it get any better after that? Meeting people, that’s what. Sharing a drink and a real life chat with some of the wonderful tweeters and bloggers we’ve all been talking to about MOON for the last year, up to this point.
But most of all, we were honoured to have MOON cast & crew with us for the screening as well.
So I’d like to thank them all especially for coming,to the screening, icing on the cake (to go with the moon dust the Jamesons ladies was dishing out)
I’m sure I’ve missed stuff out, it was an incredible evening and i can’t recommend attending a future Jamesons Cult Film Club enough, they really love film, and go above and beyond to provide a very memorable experience. Follow them on Twitter for future announcements, and check their site for details on previous / future screenings HERE
And what a wonderful experience it was to hook up with people through social networks and combine with minimal communication to end up with such a FANTASTIC evening.
We also managed to catch up with the MOON crew for a video interview conducted by Ben Mortimer and filmed by James Cuff which is being edited as I type, so we’ll wang that up later if that’s ok.
Thanks to EVERYONE involved in the evening, especially all of you who loved MOON, voted, and came to the event
The limitations of this page size do not do Callum Strachan’s MOON homage above justice, so make sure you click on it, or HERE to see it in all it’s glory. From Callum:
***POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT***
After viewing ‘Moon’ for the 10th time, it was clear that I needed to do something about the obsession! The strongest feelings I came away with from the film can be boiled down to the scene where Sam speaks with Eve via the remote link and hears that Tess has passed away; an intensely powerful moment. The empathy I felt for the character of Sam and the helplessness he must have experienced made me want to capture that sentiment in a painting.
As a concept artist, it’s moments of raw humanity like this that I hope to articulate in my own work. But more than this, it’s really just a small piece to express my appreciation for the film and the work that went into it.
Finally, I’ve noticed Duncan uses the word ‘Homage’ a lot to describe the influences he took from other classic sci-fi films, I thought it would be fitting to paint a ‘Homage’ to his.
My other work can be seen here: http://callumbo.blogspot.com
After viewing ‘Moon’ for the 10th time, it was clear that I needed to do something about the obsession! The strongest feelings I came away with from the film can be boiled down to the scene where Sam speaks with Eve via the remote link and hears that Tess has passed away; an intensely powerful moment. The empathy I felt for the character of Sam and the helplessness he must have experienced made me want to capture that sentiment in a painting.
As a concept artist, it’s moments of raw humanity like this that I hope to articulate in my own work. But more than this, it’s really just a small piece to express my appreciation for the film and the work that went into it.
Finally, I’ve noticed Duncan uses the word ‘Homage’ a lot to describe the influences he took from other classic sci-fi films, I thought it would be fitting to paint a ‘Homage’ to his.
A fantastic piece, thanks for sharing it with us Callum!
MOON opens in Norway on February 12th 2010, and here is the Norwegian promotional poster designed by Haakon Hoseth which makes a great addition to our previous entries of MOON posters from around the world, maybe we should pop a nice gallery together at some point, when it finally completes it’s travels?
Thanks to Haakon, and Norwegian distributors Filmoptimistene for permission to show this to you all, and enjoy MOON Norway
Right, I ain’t gonna waffle on here, as the pictures of the mighty Mudron speak for themselves, here is his latest homage to MOON and Sam Bell.
As you may know, Mudron also created the amazing Sam Bell Oscar image we have used for the campaign. Also many more amazing images on his Flickr site >>HERE<<
Check out his pics, and follow on Twitter also if you are that way inclined
Whilst mooching about on Twitter yesterday (a very rare occurrence I can assure you) I noticed that film lover, David Sugarman, had tweeted a pic to MOON Director Duncan Jones ( @ManMadeMoon ), so I thought I’d share it with you, I also asked David to tell us about the pic & his thoughts on MOON:
Moon is a film that means a huge amount to me. Science-fiction is so often divided into two camps: one high and intellectual, distanced from the characters; or simply brainless action. Moon delivers the intelligence, the human ethical fallibility, the questions of progress and technology. It also engages with the character(s) of Sam Bell so that I care vastly more about him than I can recall any other space-based sci-fi character meaning to me.
While I cannot claim to have seen every film released in 2009, Sam Rockwell’s performance is almost certainly one of, if not the best screen performances I have ever seen. It’s not possible to discuss this film without raving about it and sounding generally too enthusiastic for it to be genuine, and a huge part of those ravings revolve around Sam’s acting.
Good luck to the whole campaign,
David Sugarman (@ShugZ)
You can also read David’s review of MOON >>HERE<< and view a larger version of the drawing above (and some of David’s other film related sketches >>HERE<<
Certainly could not let this milestone pass without note, the Sam Rockwell Oscar campaign petition setup by @rboulding on October 15th 2009 has passed the 2000 signature mark, not bad for a cause that has no financial / PR backing, just being passed on by word of mouth through social networks (Twitter / Facebook) by people like you & me that have seen MOON and been blown away by Sam’s stunning performance. Just scanning through recent signatures it seems Sam’s peers are making their thoughts known also, with signatures / comments most recently from Director Jim Jarmusch, and Spiderman / Pineapple Express star James Franco.
We know that a petition, no matter how many signatures, is not going to get Sam an Academy Award nomination all by itself, but the aim is to draw attention to Sam’s performance, and hope that the voters interest is stimulated enough to want to see MOON, and consider nominating him in the Best Actor category.
Ballot papers have now been sent out to Academy members (5,777 of them), ballots have to be completed and returned by 17:00 PST on January 23rd 2010, nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards will be announced February 2nd 2010, and the Awards themselves presented March 2nd 2010. Further details on the various branches of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences can be found on Variety’s Awards Central site.
Thanks to all who have signed the petition so far,and left comments on this blogs Sam Rockwell Oscar section, as well as the original blog entry where we kicked it all off back in mid October. It ain’t over until the ballots are returned, some voters may already know their choices and be able to complete and return their ballots, some though may have not seen MOON and witnessed the stunning performance of Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, so we’d encourage you to continue to plug / support our little campaign on social networks, on your sites, on your blogs, and in anyway that won’t cause you to be arrested.
MOON is released on DVD – Blu-Ray in the USA on January 12th 2010, though we’re hearing some stores are selling it already, so lovely Academy members, all 5,777 of you, if you haven’t seen MOON yet, I’m sure you will be aware of how talented Mr.Rockwell is already, so try and grab a copy and consider nominating Sam Rockwell in the Best Actor category for the 82nd Academy Awards
We are crossing everything that is crossable here (except anything that may lead to hospitalisation) – Thank you for taking the time to read this.
(ps – You may get so blown away by it all that you wang in a Duncan Jones director nom and a Clint Mansell soundtrack nom as well, I would, but I can’t so….)
