Fly Me to the Moon

When you thought it looked scrubbed the Moon Project is back on the launch pad with a new writer brought onto the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Up and coming writer Dan Mazeau has been hired to redraft the action film about lunar colonization that was originally written director Doug Linman and John Hamburg. Mark Bowden revamped Linman's and Hamburg's script first, now Mazeau challenge is working on a script "based on an original story by Liman, Bowden and Simon Kinberg," Kinberg will be executive producing with Linman, the pair have had box office success with "Mr & Mrs. Smith" and "Jumpers".

So Astronaut Jake will get to suit up soon enough it looks like.

Astronaut, Soldier, Prince, Cowboy, Football Star... sounds like action figures, but in reality recent roles and projects in Jake's career. What little boy didn't dream of being at least one of those? Acting gives the chance to be all things taking some of those boyhood dreams of really being the astronaut, the cowboy, the Prince and bringing it to the role. It is the magic of that sometimes is the spark to such roles, that translated it from the page to the audience. Wonder if Jake will ever get to be the bird he wanted to grow up to be?

Are the astronaut and the Prince boyhood dreams or a way of providing security in his career with big box office projects? Jake has said he admired Matt Damon's career, that of balance big box office with smaller critically acclaimed roles and indie projects. Is he making his own version of the Damon plan?

And if not acting then what for Jake? Would it be serious run at cooking? Or woodworking? Or gardening? Or would be behind the camera? Do you think he would be able to walk away from acting completely? Or would he always keep acting a part of his life?