BNS PRODUCTION
with music by THE BILLY NAYER SHOW
Written and Directed by Cory McAbee

"It's surreal, gritty and nutso all at once." -Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter.com "Imagine a long Laurel and Hardy skit directed by Salvador Dali." -Jeff Gordinier, EW Daily "Cory McAbee has come up with an unforgettable, irresistable stylistic hybrid that's part space opera, part western, part noir thriller and all hyperintelligent comedy." -Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly The American Astronaut The makers of "The American Astronaut" have used flinty black-and-white photography, ingenious sets and the spirit of the final frontier to bring their film, set in the dirty, isolated vastness of outer space, to life. But it is the tradition of the Western, as opposed to the technology-heavy fantasies of science fiction, that informs "The American Astronaut" and the Homeric intergalactic journey upon which its characters embark. Touching down on an asteroid belt near Saturn, interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis discovers an all-male culture driven by song, dance, and the loneliness of the most remote prairie. Curtis is presented with a scheme: trade a gestating "Real Live Girl" to the all-male worker planet Jupiter in exchange for a sixteen year-old boy who will surely be coveted on all-female Venus. But after the journey begins Curtis discovers that he is being pursued by Professor Hess, an enigmatic figure from his past who is leaving a trail of death in his wake. The makers of "The American Astronaut" have spent several years crafting the film, all the while gaining a following all over America as the acclaimed rock-and-roll band known as The Billy Nayer Show. Synopsis Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in a rare goods, living or otherwise. His mission begins with the unlikely delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and renowned interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate (Joshua Taylor). As payment for his delivery of the cat, Curtis receives a homemade cloning device already in the process of creating a creature most rare in this space quadrant...a Real Live Girl.   Starring Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Gregory Russell Cook, Annie Golden, James Ransone, Joshua Taylor, Tom Aldredge, Peter McRobbie, Bill Buell, Mark Manley, Ned Sublette.  Related Sites: www.americanastronaut.com  Official Website Press Kit