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Science Fiction / TV Movie

The First Men in the Moon.

Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.

Directed by Damon Thomas

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY

Cast.

Rory Kinnear

Rory Kinnear

Bedford

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

Cavor

Alex Riddell

Alex Riddell

Jim

Reece Shearsmith

Reece Shearsmith

Moon

Lee Ingleby

Lee Ingleby

Chessocks

Peter Forbes

Peter Forbes

Dad

Steve Pemberton

Steve Pemberton

Sun

Philip Jackson

Philip Jackson

Voice of Grand Lunar

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