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The origins of Elon Musk’s ambitious space exploration project SpaceX are retold as a six-part HBO series to be produced by Magic Mike star Channing Tatum.
In addition to Tatum, former HBO Films boss Len Amato is the executive producer of the series that will be based on the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and Ashlee Vance’s Quest for a Fantastic Future.
The Hollywood Reporter says SpaceX will follow Musk in an attempt to fulfill its ambition to make humanity a true “multi-planetary species.”
The story will follow Musk as he chooses a team of engineers to attempt to launch the rocket from the small island of Omelek in the Pacific Ocean. They failed three times, in 2006, 2007, and 2008 and resources and funds were exhausted but eventually they managed to get the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit.
Soon after, the company’s first manned operation, Falcon 9, was launched and successfully docked at the International Space Station.
Doug Jung (Star Trek Beyond, The Cloverfield Paradox) is adapting Vance’s book and will executive produce with Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan, Amato and Vance.
Musk is not involved in the project, but in July it was revealed that he and SpaceX were involved in a project with Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman that was intended to become the first movie ever shot in space.
Big-budget production is estimated to cost around $ 200 million (£ 153 million) but, considering a film has never been made beyond Earth, that may be an understatement.
Amato reportedly left HBO in early 2020, but is clearly on good terms with his previous company. SpaceX is one of several highly successful series in development at HBO, which has an exclusive sales agreement with Sky in the UK. Michelle Williams and Oscar Isaac will star in an adaptation of Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman, while The Big Short director Adam McKay is working on a Jeffrey Epstein project and an adaptation of Parasite, which won the 2020 Oscar for Best Picture. along with the film’s director, Bong. Joon-ho.
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