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Did the director of 2001 film the landings?
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He had the skills, and NASA had the motive.
2001 showed spaceflight more convincingly than anything before it, a year before Apollo 11. Kubrick was a perfectionist who worked closely with technical advisers. If anyone could fake a landing, the argument goes, it was him. [1]
Primary institutional record. Carried from the first edition and re-listed 23 October 2026; cited for the specific point in the text.
A fake interview and a Hollywood set.
The viral “confession” comes from Shooting Stanley Kubrick, a film by T. Patrick Murray. A spokesperson for Kubrick’s widow said Kubrick was “never interviewed by T. Patrick Murray” and called it “made up, fraudulent and untrue.” [1][2]
A 2023 video claiming to show the hoax set was partly behind-the-scenes footage from First Man, a 2018 film about Neil Armstrong. [1]
2001 was celebrated for its effects in 1968. [3] But its scenes do not show what Apollo footage does: dust flying in clean arcs in a vacuum, and hours of continuous low-gravity motion. Those are covered on the slow-motion page.
Fact check quoting a spokesperson for Kubrick’s widow: the T. Patrick Murray interview is “made up, fraudulent and untrue.”
Fact check: the “confession” interview is an actor in a 2015 film.
Primary institutional record. Carried from the first edition and re-listed 23 October 2026; cited for the specific point in the text.
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In April 1968.
Who says it: NASA history.
An actor played him in a T. Patrick Murray film.
Who says it: Viral video.
It was from the 2018 film First Man.
Who says it: Viral video.
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