The inspiration for Johan Renck’s new film Spaceman is more down-to-earth than one might expect.
Although the sci-fi flick revolves around a Czech astronaut venturing into mysterious purple space dust, Renck says what drew him to the script was the main character’s relation to his own life and to the broader experiences of men with feet planted firmly on Earth.
“This is 100 per cent a film about myself — a previous version of myself,” Renck told CBC News.
Spaceman, based on Jaroslav Kalfař’s 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia, follows astronaut Jakub Procházka as he realizes his marriage is falling apart at the worst possible time: when he’s six months into
