As per usual, Richard Linklater follows nobody’s path but his own. His last few films have seen him zig and zag from “Dazed & Confused” spiritual sequel “Everybody Wants Some!!” to “The Last Detail” followup “Last Flag Flying” to the upcoming dramedy “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” However, it looks like the filmmaker is going a bit undercover again, just like he did with “Boyhood.”
Announced at the end of December, but seemingly lost amidst year-end coverage and general exhaustion, The Houston Chronicle revealed that Linklater is currently at work on “a film set during the summer of 1969” in Houston. The film will be told from a child’s point of view, with a soundtrack of “regional hits” from the time (naturally), with the narrative centering around one of the most captivating moments of that year: man walking on the moon.
“You had so much going on in Houston at once: NASA, the Medical Center, the Astrodome,” Linklater said.
“There was a communal atmosphere. You had all these kids with parents working at NASA for a common goal,” he added.
The filmmaker is also eager to immerse himself in footage from the time, and via the Houston Film Commission, has put out a call for vintage movies and more from the era:
Director Richard Linklater needs your Houston area photos, videos from the 1960s for a new movie. Have a home movie from Astroworld or the Astrodome, or a recording of your little brother with Kitirik? Did someone you know use a Kinescope to record the moon landing? If so, we want to see it and anything else that documents that era. There is no wrong material, as long as it from Houston in the 1960s we want to see it.
There’s no word on who is starring in the picture, or the title, but Linklater is aiming to have it in cinemas in 2019, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
