Richard Linklater screens ‘Apollo 10 1/2’ for NASA employees

Filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Sam Chipman joke about their matching shirts before a screening of Linklater’s new film Apollo 10 1/2 A Space Age Childhood, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at Space Center Houston. The film that is told through the eyes of a child growing up in the Houston area around NASA in the 1960s as Linklater himself did, will be available to stream on Netflix on April 1. The screening at Space Center Houston adjacent to the Johnson Space Center provided a unique opportunity to view the movie where it was set.

Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer

Houston-born film director Richard Linklater’s latest film, the animated “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” is set in late ‘60s Houston and centers on a boy chosen for a secret NASA mission. So what better place to show it than at NASA?

That is exactly what happened Wednesday night as the movie, which begins streaming on Netflix Friday, was screened for NASA employees at Space Center Houston. Among those in attendance were Linklater, producer Mike Blizzard (who also grew up in Houston), producer/animator Tommy Pallotta and some of the children in the cast.

The film lands on Netflix Friday after a short theatrical run at the Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra Katy and the Cinemark 18 in Webster.

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Cary Darling joined the Houston Chronicle in 2017 where he writes about arts, entertainment and pop culture, with an emphasis on film and media. Originally from Los Angeles and a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, he has been a features reporter or editor at the Orange County Register, Miami Herald, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In addition, he has freelanced for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News.

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