In the upcoming Warner Brothers' feature film The Astronaut Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton plays the role of Charles Farmer, a former astronaut who never flew in space but who decides to accomplish his dream of reaching orbit by building his own rocket. To do so, Farmer draws from designs of the past, basing "The Dreamer," his spacecraft, on the historic Mercury-Atlas that carried the first Americans to orbit in the 1960s. The Astronaut Farmer opens in theaters 45 years (plus three days) after astronaut John Glenn rode his Mercury-Atlas into U.S. history.
PurduesUSAFguy - 2/2/2007 8:00 PMI am really looking forward to this movie, it reminds me of a news story I saw a few years ago about a man in Texas who was a multi-millionaire toy maker who was building his own rocket in his shop. Havn't heard anything about it recently but it sounds very similar.
Paramount - 23/2/2007 6:42 PMReally is getting dissed heavily for being a really poor film