In 1969 the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-old Julius Bedford who tells him that in 1909,as a struggling writer,he met the eccentric Professor Cavor, inventor of Cavorite,a gravity-defying substance which they used to build a sphere,which took them to the Moon.
The First Men in the Moon is a wonderful new adaptation of the HG Wells story, by Mark Gatiss, directed by Damon Thomas. With fabulous performances by Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear it is now available to buy on DVD.
