He'll direct the historical drama
After digging into racial segregation in the 1960s with The Help and charting James Brown’s career for his latest, Get On Up, it appears director Tate Taylor is in no rush to return to the present, at least in terms of his projects. He’s now attached to make FilmNation’s Apollo 11 drama In The Event Of A Moon Disaster .
Now, of course – real-life spoiler alert dating back to 1969 – the mission that saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Lunar surface was a success with only minor setbacks. But Richard Nixon’s speechwriter William Safire had prepared a statement in case the astronauts met with real problems and were unable to return. The document, discovered among Safire’s papers in 2009, inspired Mike Jones to write a script based on the idea of the administration creating such a document. You can read the original statement here.
“Tate is an incredibly talented artist in every sense, and we have been actively searching for the right project to collaborate on,” enthuses FilmNation’s Karen Lunder. “We're thrilled to have found it with Moon Disaster.” Get On Up will arrive in the UK on September 26, and Taylor is also attached to make Netflix series Grace & Frankie, which stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
from Empire News
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