![]() ![]() Īfter landing on the lunar surface and discovering its oxygen atmosphere is frozen into the surface and released in direct sunlight, the two explorers are captured with nets and taken underground by the Moon's inhabitants (whom Cavor names Selenites). ![]() Bedford encouraged Cavor to think of the profits his invention might bring, and they worked together to build a cast iron sphere that would fly them both to the Moon. Cavor had invented "Cavorite", a substance that blocked the force of gravity. He relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor ( Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram. In July 1969, 90-year-old Julius Bedford ( Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the Moon in 1909. This is the third collaboration between Thomas and Gatiss (after The Worst Journey in the World and Crooked House), and the first film to be produced by their production company Can Do Productions. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel of the same name. The First Men on the Moon was first broadcast on 19 October 2010 on BBC Four. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, is a 2010 television drama written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Damon Thomas, that stars Gatiss as Cavor and Rory Kinnear as Bedford, with Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes, Katherine Jakeways, Lee Ingleby and Julia Deakin. The First Men in the Moon, also promoted as H. ![]()
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