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Hawkes, Katrina tracks are 'Moon' in-jokes
Published Friday, Jul 17 2009, 10:00 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The science fiction movie, which stars Sam Rockwell as an astronaut isolated on a lunar mining base, features significant uses of the pop tracks 'Walking On Sunshine' by Katrina And The Waves and Chesney Hawkes's 'The One And Only'.
Speaking to DS, Jones admitted that the Katrina track was intended as a nod to Danny Boyle's recent movie Sunshine.
"'Walking On Sunshine', Sunshine is obviously a film we'd love to be, the next British independent film. Sunshine was done for $50 million (£30 million) and we were done for $5 million (£3 million) so that was a little in-joke."
Jones added that Hawkes's 1991 UK number one was also intended as a gag: "I don't want to explain that too much because it involves the plot in some ways. A lot of British people get that joke before the Americans. Americans tend not to get that one so much."
Moon opens in cinemas today.
> Click here to watch our interview with Duncan Jones
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