Welcome to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, Enterium writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this on

Saturday, July 18, 2020. We'll be posting this episode of fine-tuning on Tuesday, July 21st, which is just

one day after the 51st anniversary of man landing on the moon and I bring this up because just

in the past week Hollywood reporter ran a piece about Apollo 10 and a half a space age adventure which is a new feature link project that

Richard Link Ledder is writing and directing and Netflix just picked up and you actually talked with Richard about this back in like 2018 right?

I talked to him actually last summer because it was announced in 2018 that he was asking for people's footage. He actually wanted local

Texans to share their footage of the Apollo launch which is cool. So I imagine he was going to incorporate that into the film and so last year when he was

promoting a movie called Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which I think is on cable now, I asked him about it and he said,

oh that's dead. He said, you know, but what's about and he said, oh, that's dead.

He said, you know, but what's interesting is he said,

I got to make another crack at it.

I got to make another go at it.

And apparently he did because it was announced this week that it's going to be animated combining

hand drawn and computer animation and it'll be on Netflix sometime soon.

They shot some live action portions in March.

And yeah, where were you when the space mission launched, Jim?

I remember getting up and my parents were already up.

They have been sitting there all night watching the moon landing,

waiting for them to come down and get out and explore the moon.

But yeah, it's kind of weird to watch it in real time

on television because if you've ever seen any of the real footage from it,

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