He says interest in the script was re-activated by the Watergate Scandal. Hyams wrote the script in 1972 but no one wanted to make it. So I was watching these simulations and I wondered what would happen if someone faked a whole story. My generation was brought up to believe television was true, and that was bullshit too. I grew up in the generation where my parents basically believed if it was in the newspaper it was true. Louis where there was a simulation of what was going on. Whenever there was something on the news about a space shuttle, they would cut to a studio in St. He later reflected regarding the Apollo 11 moon landing, “There was one event of really enormous importance that had almost no witnesses. Peter Hyams began thinking about a film of a space hoax while working on broadcasts of the Apollo missions for CBS. David Huddleston as Congressman Hollis Peaker.Sam Waterston as Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis, USAF.James Brolin as Colonel Charles Brubaker, USAF.Ultimately, Caulfield and Brubaker arrive at the astronauts' memorial service, exposing the conspiracy. The helicopters chase their plane through a canyon but are destroyed after being blinded with crop spray. With the help of crop-dusting pilot Albain, he searches the desert and rescues Brubaker from the men in the helicopters. Looking around, he finds a necklace given to Brubaker by his wife and concludes that the astronauts were in the hangar. Kelloway sends the helicopters after them Willis and Walker are found, while Brubaker is the only one to avoid capture and hides in a deserted gas station.Īnother reporter tells Caulfield about the military base and he goes there, finding it abandoned. Realizing that the chances of exposing the truth are increased if they split up, they start walking in three directions. Forced to crash-land and stranded in the desert, they attempt to return to civilization while being pursued by helicopters. They break out of confinement and escape in the plane, which runs out of fuel soon after take-off. They realize that something has gone wrong with the re-entry process and that officials can never release them. The captive astronauts board a plane to be placed in the spacecraft, but the plane unexpectedly turns around and returns to the airfield. The astronauts are said to have died due to the malfunction. Upon returning to Earth, the empty spacecraft burns up due to a faulty (separated) heat shield during atmospheric reentry. As Caulfield investigates further, he is arrested by federal agents when cocaine is planted in his home and is later fired from his job. She says that Brubaker was entranced by the filmmaking process and said that with enough special effects and movie magic, anything could be made to look real. Brubaker that it seems unlikely her husband would make such a mistake and that he was probably sending her a message. She says that the vacation Brubaker mentioned never took place and that the family had gone to another location where a movie was being filmed. Caulfield discovers that all evidence of his friend's life has been erased and he begins investigating the mission, surviving several attempts on his life in the process.Ĭaulfield's investigation leads him to question Brubaker's "widow" after reviewing a conversation between the astronauts and their spouses aired on live television where Brubaker mentioned a previous family vacation that seems to confuse Mrs. He disappears before he can finish sharing his concerns with journalist friend Robert Caulfield. Whitter reports his concerns to his supervisors, including Kelloway, but is told that it is due to a faulty workstation. The conspiracy is known to only a few officials until alert technician Elliot Whitter notices that ground control receives the crew's television transmissions before the spacecraft telemetry arrives. The astronauts remain in captivity during the flight and are filmed landing on Mars in a studio located at the base. Initially, they refuse, but Kelloway threatens their families to get them to cooperate. At the base, the astronauts are informed by NASA official Kelloway that a faulty life-support system would have killed the astronauts during the flight, and they must help counterfeit the television footage during the flight to and from Mars. The launch proceeds on schedule, and the public is unaware that the spacecraft is empty. The crew of Brubaker, Willis, and Walker are removed from Capricorn One just before liftoff and, bewildered, are flown to an abandoned desert base. Capricorn One-the first crewed mission to Mars-is on the launch pad.
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