The new film, directed by Greg Berlanti, is out in July
Sony and Apple have dropped a first look at Fly Me to the Moon, a new rom-com starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum as two NASA workers with a specific mission: faking the moon landing.
The film, directed by Greg Berlanti, is set in the 1960s during the space race as NASA rushes to get ahead with Apollo 11. However, just in case things go awry, they call in Johansson’s character, a marketing specialist, to give the agency a PR boost. She meets Tatum’s character, a launch director and her future love interest, over a burning book and gets to work refreshing NASA’s image and making its astronauts “bigger than the Beatles.” But the stakes get a little higher when both characters are told that NASA can’t afford to lose to the Russians and are pulled into a plot to stage a fake landing in case the actual launch doesn’t go as planned.
According to Variety, Apple took on the film after securing a $100 million deal following a bidding war in 2022. Johansson is also one of the producer’s for the film, which was originally going to be directed by Jason Bateman, who left the project because of creative differences. Tatum stepped in to play the role of the launch director after actor Chris Evans, who had been first attached to the role.
The film is out in July. It also stars Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Nick Dillenburg, Christian Zuber, and Woody Harrelson.
