New Batch of Moon Images

I’m one of the few people who thought Steven Soderbergh’s “Solaris” was just brilliant and captivating stuff, and I sat there transfixed by every scene and memory flashback. And when I heard about and saw images from Duncan Jones’ “Moon”, I knew I would love this movie. Then when I saw the trailer, I knew I was right. Here are even more new batches of images from “Moon”, starring Sam Rockwell.

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive.

Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.

Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.

Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plans.

Starring Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scodelario, Matt Berry, Benedict Wong, Malcolm Stewart, Dominique McElligott, and Robin Chalk. Duncan Jones co-writes (with Nathan Parker) and directs.

“Moon” is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles on June 12.