Scarlett JohanssonandChanning Tatumare ready for takeoff.
The most challenging projects to find are romantic comedies and dramedies, Johansson tells EW via email.
The totally original script by Rose Gilroy was what excited me most about this film.
Channing Tatum as Cole Davis and Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Jones in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’.Dan McFadden/Sony
Audiences are hungry for original films!
Those are some of the toughest to execute these days because theres a lot of competition for peoples attention.
It plays with this concept of whether or not we faked it, Berlanti explains.
Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’.Dan McFadden/Sony
What is the origin of that?
Why does the truth still matter?
I kept asking them on set, ‘Are you sure you guys havent worked together before?’
Cole Davis (Channing Tatum) in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’.Dan McFadden/Sony
Theyre not only perfect together, but off camera, they got along really well.
In the film, they can be total opposites at times.
Its in that great tradition of all the old screwball comedies, or the Rock Hudson-Doris Day movies.
Woody Harrelson as Moe Berkus in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’.Dan McFadden/Sony
Johansson confirms that she and Tatum were fast friends, even if he became the sets resident prankster.
He was constantly pulling my pigtails, she says sometimes literally.
Both Johansson and Berlanti agree that their favorite days were filming the fake moon landing itself.
We wanted to figure out, what would the moon look like on film?
What would it look like via a TV set at the time?
And you had to walk in these silly shoes, so you dont mess up the moon set.
We put a lot of time and thought into making sure it felt as real as possible.
It was like watching the moon landing live right before your eyes.
Fly Me to the Moonwill hit theaters July 12.
