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American space adventure films

  • The Mandalorian and GroguHollywood's 2023 labor disputes turned a planned Mandalorian TV season into a movie.
  • Avengers: Infinity WarAvengers: Infinity War ends with Thanos watching a sunrise after erasing half of all life.
  • First Man (film)First Man opens with Neil Armstrong's X-15 bouncing off the atmosphere. His daughter Karen was dying of a brain tumor.
  • Star Wars (film)George Lucas forgot Star Wars was opening the day it came out. That night, he saw crowds lined up outside a theater.
  • 2001: A Space OdysseyAt the New York premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey, 250 people walked out. The poster later said "the ultimate trip."
  • Apollo 11 (1996 film)Buzz Aldrin filmed a cameo in a 1996 Apollo 11 movie, then it was cut. He played a clergyman.
  • Star Wars: StarfighterStar Wars: Starfighter is set in a part of the galaxy never seen on screen. Ryan Gosling leads a mostly new cast.
  • Rogue OneRogue One first had an ending where the heroes lived. Director Gareth Edwards wrote it, but it was never filmed.
  • Apollo 13 (film)The Apollo 13 film's famous line "Failure is not an option" was never spoken by Gene Kranz during the real mission.
  • Dune (2021 film)Dune, the 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, began with a filmmaker who doubted he would ever get to make it. In September 2016 the Canadian director said, "a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune, but it's a long process to get…
  • Avatar (2009 film)Avatar, the 2009 science fiction film from director James Cameron, began with a dream he had when he was 19 years old. In the dream, he saw a bioluminescent forest. Its trees were made of fiber-optic strands, fan lizards moved through the…
  • Interstellar (film)Interstellar, the 2014 science fiction epic directed by Christopher Nolan, was filmed under a decoy name: Flora's Letter. Flora is one of Nolan's four children with producer Emma Thomas. Nolan is famous for guarding his productions, and…
  • Avatar: The Way of WaterAvatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron's 2022 science fiction sequel, contains an underwater scene for which Kate Winslet held her breath for more than seven minutes. That broke the record for a breath hold during a filmed scene, which…
  • Flash Gordon (serial)The 1936 Flash Gordon serial reused Frankenstein's watchtower sets inside Emperor Ming's palace.
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)George Lucas liked early footage of a Clone Wars TV series so much that he made it a movie.
  • SpaceballsGeorge Lucas let Spaceballs mock Star Wars on one condition. No Spaceballs action figures could ever be made.

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