Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D |
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| Directed by | Mark Cowen |
| Produced by | Mark Cowen Tom Hanks Gary Goetzman Mark Herzog |
| Written by | Mark Cowen Tom Hanks Christopher G. Cowen |
| Starring | Tom Hanks Paul Newman Morgan Freeman Scott Glenn Matt Damon Gary Sinise |
| Music by | Blake Neely |
| Cinematography | Sean MacLeod Phillips |
| Edited by | Billy Shinski |
|
Production
company |
|
| Distributed by | IMAX |
|
Release date
|
September 23, 2005 |
|
Running time
|
40 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $40,339,402 |
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D is a 2005 IMAX 3D documentary film about the first humans on the Moon, the twelve astronauts in the Apollo program.
It is co-written, produced and directed by Mark Cowen, and co-written, produced by and starring Tom Hanks.
The film includes historical NASA footage as well as re-enactments and computer-generated imagery. Tom Hanks is the narrator, co-writer and co-producer. Magnificent Desolation is the third Apollo-related project for Hanks: he was previously involved in the film Apollo 13 and the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. The cast includes Andrew Husmann, Aaron White, Brandy Blackledge, Gary Hershberger, and Scott Wilder. The voice cast includes Morgan Freeman, John Travolta, Paul Newman, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey. Bryan Cranston and Peter Scolari reprised their From the Earth to the Moon roles as Buzz Aldrin and Pete Conrad, respectively; many of the other actors had previously portrayed different people depicted in the film, in From the Earth to the Moon, The Right Stuff, and/or Apollo 13.
Score by James Newton Howard and Blake Neely.
The film was released in IMAX theaters on September 23, 2005. It was released on DVD on November 6, 2007.
The title comes from Buzz Aldrin's description of the lunar landscape:
...
Wikipedia