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Sky's the limit after $5 million 'Moon' shot


June 12, 2009 Making a sci-fi thriller set on the moon for just $5 million sounds like lunacy, but it worked so well it's put Duncan Jones' directing career in orbit. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic "2001: A Space Odyssey," whose HAL 9000 computer inspired "Moon's" lunar station computer Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey. Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut finishing a three-year contract to mine helium on the moon to ship to Earth for energy use.

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