"Moon"

Director - Duncan Jones
Writers - Duncan Jones; Nathan Parker
Producer - Trudie Snyder (Snatch; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
Stars - Sam Rockwell; Kevin Spacey; Dominique McElligott; Kaya Scodelario.

Plot
The film is about an astronaut called Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who is signed a 3 year contract to work for Lunar Industries on the moon to send back to Earth parcels of a resource (helium -3)to use as power for Earth. When his 3 year contract is almost up, he finds himself in an accident where his moon vehicle crashes. Sam then wakes up in the infirmary without showing any signs of harm. He goes outside to see what is going on and finds his own body still laying inside the crashed car. After rushing him to the infirmary he works out that the Sam that was in the car crash is a clone of himself. When both Sams are conscious they learn to be civilised with each other. Old Sam looks through the old video records to see if there are any other clones of himself and finds that there are, and towards the end of their 3 years, the clones start to lose their hair, cough up blood and self destruct, which is what Sam is starting to experience. The new Sam devises a plan to use the pods that carry the helium resources as transport to get back to Earth, but by this time, old Sam is very ill and decides that he should stay on the Moon because he won't make it. Before returning to Earth, new Sam carries old Sam's weak and feeble body back into the crashed vehicle where another clone of Sam would later find him. The film ends with a rescue team from Earth called 'Eliza' coming to fix the harvesters and finding Sam's body in the vehicle.

Information
The film only took 33 days to film. Compared to most films, this is only a percentage of how long it would normally take to produce a film. The film's target audience is directed at people who are interested in science and people who read science magazines. This is because Duncan Jones visited science events and went to NASA to do interviews for magazines ETC.

The film's budget was just 5 million dollars. Again, compared to normal films this is just a fraction. Duncan Jones cut a lot of the expense though by minimising the cast to just one main character throughout the film and filming it in a studio (Shepperton Studios - London)

A lot of CGI was used to create the 'clone effect' and this is what most of the budget was spent on.

Kevin Spacey was the voice of Gerty and didn't actually agree to do the voice until after the film had been made and shown to him. He didn't trust the film would be a success therefore waited till after to decide. The creator of the music (Clint Mansell) was also in this situation and didn't agree until after the film was shown to him.

Awards
The film won a Bafta but did not get nominated for an Oscar as the costs were too high to send the film out to each of the judges on the panelling board.