Movie Scenes from the Novel, starring:

Robert Loggia (Academy Award & Emmy nominee; Scarface, Independence Day, Big) as "General McAvoy"

Blanche Baker (Emmy winner; Sixteen Candles; The Girl Next Door) as "The President"

Eric Etebari ("Witchblade"; The Lincoln Lawyer; An Affirmative Act) as "Sen. Mitch McAvoy"

Tom Waites (And Justice For All; The Thing) as "Bob Barkstone"

Nina Transfeld (The Life Zone; The Great Fight) as "Laney Maine"

Rachael Robbins (An Affirmative Act; The Great Fight) as "Karina Kelly"

 

     In 1969, the first Apollo spacecraft landed on the moon, a feat that solidified the United States as the world's leading super power. Today, the President, in a bid for a second term, has promised her nation a modern-day lunar landing. Her problem: the Apollo missions were faked. It is physically impossible for man to survive a trip to the moon.

     Desperate for space travel, the President enlists the aid of infamous action filmmaker Dylan Travant, a man she recently tried to assassinate. Dylan's job is to shoot a phony moon landing, the same as his father had done decades earlier.

     The President and Dylan, however, share a mutual nemesis - and obstacle – charismatic, superstar U.S. Senator, Mitch McAvoy. Challenging the President to a primary battle, Mitch and his father, wealthy banking entrepreneur General Early McAvoy, wage a brutal, crafty political war. Interlaced with Mitch's cross-continental campaigning of social and economic issues, he treks across the world to settle a family (and professional) vendetta with Dylan, who, unbeknownst to him, has transformed a patch of Afghanistan into the President's moon. All the while, Karina Kelly, Mitch's beautiful fiancée and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, is uncovering information that may destroy the President's plans and expose Dylan as a fraud...and that can't happen.

     What ensues is an international roller coaster ride of political deceit, thievery, heroism, sex and scandal. Government bosses, movie stars, CIA operatives, media moguls, war lords and the Vatican's highest, simultaneously both heroes and villains, enter and break treaties. They kill, yet they save. In this suspense-filled thriller of changing identities and mass manipulation, it's the faked lunar landings that may determine the fate of so many. But this great government and Hollywood hoax isn't The Great Heist. For there is much more to be stolen than the moon...

 

 

KENNETH DEL VECCHIO

Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker & Best-selling Author

Film Festival Chairman & former Judge

 

“As usual, Mr. Del Vecchio was larger than life.”

-The New York Times

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Kenneth Del Vecchio is an acclaimed filmmaker who has written, produced and directed over 30 movies that star several Academy Award and Emmy winners and nominees. His films are distributed through industry leaders such as Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Millennium Entertainment, Cinedigm, Screen Media Films, Anchor Bay, Gravitas Ventures, and eOne Entertainment. He has starred in numerous movies, as well. Mr. Del Vecchio is founder and chairman of Hoboken International Film Festival, called by FOX, Time Warner, and other major media "One of the 10 Biggest Film Festivals in the World." He also is the author of some of the nation’s best-selling legal books, including a series of criminal codebooks published by Pearson Education/Prentice Hall and ALM. A best-selling criminal suspense novelist, he penned his first published novel at only 24-years-old. In addition, he has appeared as a legal analyst on hundreds of TV news shows for major news networks (Fox News, i24 News, Newsmax). He is the owner of the Criminal Law Learning Center, where he has taught thousands of police officers and lawyers. He is a former Judge, who also has tried over 400 cases as a practicing commercial litigation, criminal defense, and entertainment law attorney; he is a partner at the law firm Stern, Kilcullen & Rufolo…Mr. Del Vecchio, a competitive weightlifter who has won over 50 bench-press competitions, is also a longtime high school, college, and youth wrestling coach. In addition to having served as a head coach and assistant coach for five high school wrestling programs in New Jersey, Florida, and South Carolina (where he currently coaches at both a high school & a college RTC), he has coached wrestlers at all levels (high school, college and youth) at several clubs, including though his own Justice Trained academy.

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Kenneth Del Vecchio’s filmography includes: The Life Zone, Scavenger Killers, An Affirmative Act, Price For Freedom, Rock Story, Snapshot, A Wrestling Christmas Miracle, A Karate Christmas Miracle, Bleeding Hearts, Fight to Win, Cries of the Unborn, American Criminal, O.B.A.M. Nude, Joker’s Wild, iMurders, Kinky Killers, The Grand Theft, Fake, 4 Presidents, The Great Fight, Hospital Arrest, Renaissance Man, American Brawler, Puppets, Aberrant, Real Gangsters, Three Chris’s, Alone in the Dark 2, The Drum Beats Twice, Pride & Loyalty, Tinsel Town, Here and There, The Crimson Mask, and Rules For Men. His novels are Pride & Loyalty, Revelation in the Wilderness and The Great Heist. And his legal books include: Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes (national criminal codebook), New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes, New York Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes, and Test Prep Guide to Accompany New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice, with numerous others in the works…Mr. Del Vecchio also served as the publisher/editorial page editor for a daily newspaper in New Jersey.

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Bio Reels: https://vimeo.com/752310728/bca050b39f

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https://vimeo.com/793917825 (long, very long)

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For more detailed information about Kenneth Del Vecchio, including critical reviews and press quotes, please visit www.justiceforallproductions.com.