![]() ![]() Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history. The old film spooling through his projector takes us back another 70 years, when he, a young, feckless entrepreneur called Julius Bedford ( Rory Kinnear) first meets the eccentric Professor Cavor, played by Gatiss. A creepy old man who runs a "kinematographic" tent show tells a young boy that actually, he had been the first man on the moon. It begins in 1969, on the eve of the Apollo moon landings, at an English funfair. His solution – a rather brilliant one – is to backdate the story, but only by 40 years. W ith his adaptation of HG Wells's The First Men In The Moon (BBC4), Mark Gatiss set himself a puzzle: how could he convey the obvious admiration he feels for Wells as a visionary while dramatising a tale that is in many ways fantastically quaint? You can't update a story about Edwardians going to the moon. ![]()
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