A Spacey Summer is Coming...
You may recall my entry from a couple of months ago, about the Japanese anime series Twin Spica . In case you don't recall, it was about a group of kids in the near future, who have been chosen for the first class in an official Japanese astronaut academy. Well, now the NHK network has announced that it's making a live-action version of the story, which will premiere June 11. 16-year-old newcomer Nanami Sakuraba will play the lead role of Asumi Kamogawa. I don't know about her acting, but visually she's a good match: The Japanese space agency JAXA is acting as an advisor for the production. They did the same thing on the anime series Rocket Girls , and did a great job of it. Meanwhile, a bit closer to home, the History Channel is working on Moonshot , a new movie about the Apollo 11 mission. It will premiere July 20, which is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The only cast member I know of so far is James Marsters, best known as Spike on Buffy the Vampir