From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Directed by Byron Haskin
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
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Haskin, a former special effects guru who had already directed the 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds and the space adventure From the Earth to the Moon (1958), sought to make Robinson Crusoe on Mars as scientifically accurate as possible in depicting what it would be like for a man to survive for an extended period of time on the surface of the Red Planet, which is exactly what Weir sought to do in his novel and Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, World War Z) sought to do in their film adaptation.