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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
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- The Movie Rights To Apollo 13 were Sold Before the Book Was Even Written. In 1992, Lovell—one of three astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission when an explosion cost them fuel cells and oxygen, creating a life-support crisis—decided to write a book-length account of the incident titled Lost Moon.
- Steven Spielberg Made a Crucial Suggestion that changed Apollo 13. To simulate the weightlessness inside the module, Howard and his crew were contemplating using wires and harnesses, a logistical decision that would’ve had his cast suspended like marionettes for months of shooting.
- The Cast of Apollo 13 Endured More Than 600 Controlled Plane Dives. Because the KC-135 only achieved weightlessness for its occupants for 25 seconds at a time, Howard, Hanks and co-stars Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton had to make roughly 600 dives, called parabolas, in order to capture the amount of footage needed.
- Tom Hanks Was Dubbed Apollo 13's “Accuracy Police.” Hanks had wanted to make a film of the Apollo 13 mission even before Lovell’s book was announced, asking writers to investigate the premise and see if they could fashion a script from the events.
Jun 29, 2020 · Tom Hanks, coming off his back-to-back Best Actor Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, starred in the film as Lovell, who was chosen to lead his first lunar mission, the year after the historic Apollo 11 landing. Lovell had been scheduled to fly along with Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), but after Mattingly was sidelined days before the launch due to a German ...
Mar 30, 2020 · The iconic five-word phrase spoken by Tom Hanks, portraying astronaut Jim Lovell, in the 1995 blockbuster Apollo 13 instantly became one of the most memorable movie quotes of all time. However ...
Jun 30, 1995 · Apollo 13. Disaster. 135 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1995. Roger Ebert. June 30, 1995. 5 min read. There is a moment early in “Apollo 13” when astronaut Jim Lovell is taking some press on a tour of the Kennedy Space Center, and he brags that they have a computer “that fits in one room and can send out millions of instructions.”.
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Apr 17, 2020 · In the film, Tom Hanks, playing Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, says – tersely – into the radio microphone: "Houston, we have a problem." The seriousness and rising panic are obvious in both ...
