If Rodney Ascher‘s documentary “Room 237” taught us anything, it’s that there is a strong fringe group of people who have very well thought out, but completely harebrained conspiracy theories that Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo 11 moon landing. According to certain tinfoil hat wearing types, Kubrick was hired by the U.S. government to shoot a fake moon landing, and then later apologized/admitted to doing so in the most backwards way possible, by leaving clues strewn throughout “The Shining” (Danny wearing an Apollo 11 sweater being one of the key pieces of evidence). However, most rational people realize this is total rubbish, but someone from the Kubrick camp has finally addressed the issue.
With NASA’s Juno probe reaching Jupiter this week, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian Kubrick hit Twitter to say that while there are “many, very real conspiracies” out there, any chatter that her father participated in any sort of fake moon landing is “a grotesque lie.”
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Vivian Kubrick was intimately involved in her father’s film productions, shooting a behind-the-scenes making-of documentary about “The Shining,” and having very small roles in a handful of movies. That being said, the rest of the Kubrick clan has said she’s been long estranged since becoming a Scientologist, and wouldn’t someone who was on set for “The Shining” and/or part of Kubrick’s family be the first to lie if it was a government operation? RIGHT?
All kidding aside, we’ll see if this finally puts to bed one of weirder myths around Stanley Kubrick, or is simply twisted by conspiracy nuts into another clue that the entire Kubrick family is still in on it. [AV Club]
Re: Faked Moon Landings
Many people have asked me about this. And this feels like the right time to respond … pic.twitter.com/UVlNFofFW8— Vivian Kubrick (@ViKu1111) July 5, 2016