Apollo 10+1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood is a 2022 American lively coming-of-age drama movie set in the course of the occasions previous to the Apollo eleven Moon landing, loosely primarily based totally on the adolescence of writer, director, and manufacturer Richard Linklater. It affords a fictional story of a fourth-grader who will become the primary individual to land on the Moon and stars Glen Powell, Jack Black, Zachary Levi, and Josh Wiggins. Linklater, who firstly was given the concept for the movie in 2004, turned to make plans to create the movie in stay motion however as an alternative determined to go along with an animation fashion stimulated via way of means of Saturday morning cartoons, because of the playful nature of animation. Home films created in Houston, Texas in the course of the Sixties had been used for research, and a few had been additionally protected withinside the movie. Principal images commenced in February 2020 at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas, and wrapped in March 2020. Parts of the filming had been achieved in the front of the biggest inexperienced display screen in Texas and components of the movie, which had been shot in stay–motion, had been lively in the course of post-manufacturing the usage of a method just like the rotoscoping utilized in Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). Apollo 10+1⁄2 premiered at South via way of means of Southwest on March 13, 2022, and turned into launched in pick theaters on March 24, 2022, earlier than premiering on Netflix on April 1. It acquired tremendous reviews, with rewards for its writing, visuals, and mawkish feel.