Director Duncan Jones had the following conversation with himself.
Spoilers ahead.
“Okay Zowie, so you want to make a movie, eh?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Well, what kind of movie do you want to make?”
“I don’t know. I really like Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick. Maybe something in the science fiction genre?”
“Alright, that’s a good start. Why not make a movie that’s like Blade Runner meets 2001: A Space Odyssey? Don’t forget to include an evil corporation, all science fiction movies need an evil corporation.”
“Brilliant! I think I’ll call it Moon.”
I doubt Moon‘s conception was quite so basic, and I’m doing Duncan Jones a disservice by boiling the creation of the film down to a conversation he had with himself. However, if there is anything to be said of Moon, it’s that it shares many thematic elements with Scott’s Blade Runner and Kubrick’s 2001 — there also happens to be a lot of people talking to themselves in the movie. Hard sci-fi films have always been a rarity in Hollywood, with each new film usually taking nods from its predecessor. There are shades of 2001, Bladerunner, Solaris and even Silent Running, but Moon is very much its own film. It takes what was great about those movies tonally and thematically and creates something new and very interesting.
