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Introduction

Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Movie Review: Kelly Jones, a marketing guru hired by NASA to improve the agency’s public image, ruins launch director Cole Davis’s already challenging mission of landing a man on the moon. The White House orders Jones to create a fictitious lunar landing as a backup since they believe the mission is too vital to fail.

Kelly Jones, a marketing guru, ruins launch director Cole Davis’s already challenging job. The White House orders Jones to create a fictitious lunar landing as backup since they believe the mission is too vital to fail.

Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Moview Review Details

Release Date: July 12, 2024 (United States)
Director: Greg Berlanti
Box Office: Gross worldwide $566,328
Time: 2 hours 12 minutes
Countries of Origin: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Genres: Comedy, Romance

Main Idea: A compulsive liar and advertising executive is brought to the NASA team in 1968, during the height of the space race, in an attempt to raise money and get support from the American public for a Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Moview Review landing that is 400 million dollars over budget. A flight director she encounters is fixated on her even though he doesn’t want anything to do with her.

About: The fact that Rose Gilroy, the author of one of my favorite screenplays from the previous year, The Pack, is writing this project intrigues me the most. The logline is as follows: “A documentary crew that is vying for an Emmy for a film about wild Alaskan wolves is hiding several big secrets about their difficult three-month production.”

This script is the total opposite of that one. That script was really original and artistic. It’s a romantic comedy. I’m interested to see what she does with that, then.

Writer: Rose Gilroy, Bill Kirstein and Kennan Flynn.

Luckily, it’s not as horrible as Aloha in Fly Me to the Moon.

It does a lot of things [technically] right as a script, in fact. Reaching the Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Moview Review is our objective. The consequences are dire: communism triumphs. You are in a race with the Russians, therefore you must act quickly.

Your challenge is that they hired Kelly since they don’t have enough money. The tension between the two romantic characters is that Cole needs to finish this job, but Kelly keeps getting in the way so she can tell Americans about it. The sexual tension between them complicates this.

Additionally, everyone of your primary characters has obvious weaknesses. Cole is a truth-teller to the core. Kelly will always tell lies to get her goals.

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Why then does the script not function?

You guys are used to me talking about how crucial the fundamentals are all the time. If you do all that correct, there’s a lot greater probability of success for your script. However, despite all of their efforts, this ends up being mediocre at best. Why?

To begin with, the idea isn’t really good. This combination seems odd. An affair centered on the lunar race? You get what I mean when I say that those two things are difficult to say.

This holds true for nearly all concepts. No amount of execution can make up for a poor premise. This script is an average one, at most, produced by skillfully executing a bad concept.

Additionally, they introduced the fictitious moon landing plotline at great risk. It’s risky since you’re already attempting to combine two unsuitable concepts—the Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Moview Review landing and romance. Therefore, the inclusion of a third awkward plot point in the film made it feel even more amateurish. As easy as that. As if the screenwriters had no idea what kind of film they were producing.

I see now what they were attempting to do. Their goal was to make up for Kelly’s shortcoming. What is the largest object we could possibly put in the path of someone who tells lies everywhere? Concoct a lie so massive that it would constitute a betrayal of the entire nation, not just this guy she adores.

So when you discuss it aloud, it makes sense. At the writer’s table, I could imagine this chat going over REALLY WELL. However, writing and coaching basketball are similar at times. The five players with the top stats can’t be started on the floor all the time. You need to identify the five guys that work best together. It has an element of “feel” to it, much like writing does.

What I discovered: Make a big introduction. Have you ever been out and about, at an event, or at a store when a stranger approached you and said something? Most likely, you turn to face them and inquire, “Huh? What just did you say? You weren’t ready for their question, so you missed what they said.

Readers react similarly to character introductions in this way. You’re introducing them to a number of characters in that first act. They’re not able to catch them all since it’s occurring so quickly. It is likely that the reader will remember only half of the characters introduced in the first fifteen pages if there are ten. As a result, make a BIG impression while introducing someone significant.