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Originally Posted by speede5
If Hollywood has taught me anything it's that no good can come of this.
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A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret...
Capricorn One is a 1978 science fiction thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars Elliott Gould with James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O. J. Simpson as the astronauts.
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Capricorn One is thematically a typical 1970s government-conspiracy thriller with similarities to Hyams's subsequent film
Outland the story was inspired by allegations that the Apollo Moon landing was a hoax.