Sweet jeebus, my prayers have been answered:
Barry Sonnenfeld will produce animated laffer "Space Chimps" along with Vanguard Animation and Starz Media. Twentieth Century Fox will distribute. (…)
Script by helmer Kirk De Micco tells the story of astronaut chimps on a mission in space.
On the NASA website, read more about animals in space, and the first monkey and chimpanzee astronauts. Above, "Ham" the chimp in his flight couch, after his trip in the
Mercury-Redstone 2 on Jan. 31, 1961.
Reader comment: The Junior Mad Scientist says,
Apropos of the slated animal astronauts movie: James Vinning has a graphic novel about the little critters, "First In Space" — Amazon Link. Look well worth a read. Also a link about it at Newsarama. First Second Books is publishing Laika by Nick Abadzis, about the first dog into space. Link.
Marshall says,
BoingBoing fave Apelad drew me a portrait of Ham the Chimp, Retired Simian Astronaut for his monkey series. He's also done a portrait of Cosmonaut Yulia, the People's Monkey. Link.
Sunny says,
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to see this wonderful animal rights documentary about the first chimps in space. I don't think it was ever widely distributed, but it should be required viewing in public schools. Amazon Link.
Michael Hill says,
A few years back Aaron Seymour made a great space-chimp flick – kinda Lancelot Link meets Tarkovsky's Solaris. Here's some renders.
