Apple uses Apollo 11's 50th anniversary to tease 'For All Mankind' on Apple TV+
Apple on Monday premiered a second trailer for "For All Mankind," this time referencing the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20.
The spot features several people behind the show, including Ben Nedivi, Maril Davis, Michael Okuda, and Matt Wolpert. The crew talks about the historical significance of Apollo 11, the show's attempts at authenticity, and an optimistic vision of space exploration.
"For All Mankind" is actually a fictional story set in an alternate history in which the Space Race never ended. The Soviets become the first to land on the Moon, prompting the U.S. to amp up its competition.
In a related Collider interview about the show, Moore said that its genesis involved Apple TV+ co-president Zack Van Amburg, formerly with Sony Pictures Television.
"He and I had briefly talked about doing a show set at NASA in the '70s, around the Skylab era, about many years ago, and it never really got off the ground, so we didn't talk about it much further," Moore remarked.
On Apple's alleged script censorship, Moore noted that he didn't run up against many boundaries in the first place.
"It's not a show that's about graphic content, or violence or sex," he said. "I didn't have any of that, as part of what we were doing. It just wasn't an issue for me, in general. It felt like a very loose, creative environment. I was pretty much able to tell the story, in the way that I wanted to tell it. I never ran into barriers."
Apple TV+ is launching this fall, and will likely have more details revealed at a September press event. A wide assortment of original shows are planned, but it's not yet known if Apple will offer any third-party material like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video.
The spot features several people behind the show, including Ben Nedivi, Maril Davis, Michael Okuda, and Matt Wolpert. The crew talks about the historical significance of Apollo 11, the show's attempts at authenticity, and an optimistic vision of space exploration.
"For All Mankind" is actually a fictional story set in an alternate history in which the Space Race never ended. The Soviets become the first to land on the Moon, prompting the U.S. to amp up its competition.
In a related Collider interview about the show, Moore said that its genesis involved Apple TV+ co-president Zack Van Amburg, formerly with Sony Pictures Television.
"He and I had briefly talked about doing a show set at NASA in the '70s, around the Skylab era, about many years ago, and it never really got off the ground, so we didn't talk about it much further," Moore remarked.
On Apple's alleged script censorship, Moore noted that he didn't run up against many boundaries in the first place.
"It's not a show that's about graphic content, or violence or sex," he said. "I didn't have any of that, as part of what we were doing. It just wasn't an issue for me, in general. It felt like a very loose, creative environment. I was pretty much able to tell the story, in the way that I wanted to tell it. I never ran into barriers."
Apple TV+ is launching this fall, and will likely have more details revealed at a September press event. A wide assortment of original shows are planned, but it's not yet known if Apple will offer any third-party material like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video.
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I wondered if Apples fictional story will be as good.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chasing-moon/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/
It was a very thorough documentary and I learned things I didn't know before.
It laid in ALL of America -- from the black laborer, to the white executive, to the middle class families watching on their tiny black and white TVs, to the politicians, as well as the technicians, engineers and astronauts who did the actual work ALL pulling together in united effort to do rise above and accomplish the impossible. And it was crowned by the fact that the U.S. did not claim the moon as its own but instead claimed the mission and all it accomplished for the glory and betterment and future of all mankind --- Communist and Capitalist alike.
I doubt anybody born since then can understand that true meaning of Apollo.
And, I doubt it will ever happen again because, as it was happening the country was beginning to be torn apart by the efforts to end racism and the deaths of 50,000+ American boys in a senseless, unwinnable war in Vietnam. The country never recovered from that and is now more divided than ever and, instead of focusing on what is right and shared, higher goals t is mostly focused on doing what is best for ME.
Apollo represents the pinnacle of what America really stands for (or stood for) and still purports to represent: A people united in hope for the future, peace and the betterment of all mankind.
You are I hope, being sarcastic in regards to the conservatives criticism of the movie "First Man" not recreating the "moment" the Apollo astronauts planted Old Glory on the lunar surface. Of course the joke was on the critics since it was not a dramatic Iwo Jima flag raising but more like a drawn out assembling of a table from Ikea, no swelling orchestra and soaring string section, sorry.