'Twilight Zone' and 'Star Trek' writer Marc Scott Zicree orders Celebrated Spanish Actress Maria Luna for Upcoming 'Space Command'

'Twilight Zone' and 'Star Trek' writer Marc Scott Zicree orders Celebrated Spanish Actress Maria Luna for Upcoming 'Space Command'


LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Renowned Spanish actress Maria Luna
will play the featured role of Linain the forthcoming sci-fi feature film series, Space Command. The series was funded with more than $221,000 using Kickstarter.com and
filming is set to commence in September.



Hugo Award nominee Marc Scott Zicree is directing, writing and producing
the films. Zicree is known for writing The Twilight Zone Companion book, and for writing on the 1980s CBS Twilight Zone series, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, and Fox's Sliders. "Intelligent, dedicated, talented and good-hearted, Maria Luna is a
sheer joy to work with and a solid professional who makes every
production far better by her participation in it," he said.



The films will span 140 years and tell the story of several generations
of three families as mankind journeys out into space, colonizing the
moons and planets of the solar system.



Special effects master Neil Johnson, named the Fifth Street Cinema
Review Filmmaker of the Decade, is producing. Oscar and Emmy award
winner Doug Drexler (Dick Tracy, Battlestar Galactica) will handle visual effects for the films.



"Marc, Neil and Doug are sci-fi visionaries," said Luna, who acted in
Johnson's Bipolar Armageddon, Alien Armageddon, Alien Dawn and the upcoming Starship: Rising. "The series will be an epic adventure and I look forward to being part
of this story that will take audiences to an alternate galaxy unlike
any they've seen before."



Luna acted in Gia Coppola's upcoming drama Palo Alto starring James Franco (Spider-Man), Emma Roberts (Aquamarine) and Val Kilmer (Heat). In 2010, she played Maya Deimos in Id, a mystery feature from director Kevin Kunze.



Luna trained at the Actors Circle Theater, Stella Adler New York, UCLA
and the University of San Francisco. She's acted in the Maker Studios
series, La Chamba, and Maker's I Love Lucy adaptation. Luna has also acted in Barbara Kerek's Forrest Gump adaptation, David Mireles' Split Identity, in the TeleCinco TV series Los Serrano and in the web series, LA Tap Water.


Also starring in Space Command are Ethan Phillips (The Island), Armin Shimerman (The Hitcher), Sybill Danning (Grindhouse), Katharine Lee McEwan (Alien Armageddon), Sara Maraffino (Dead Hearts) and Christina Marie Moses (Head Case).


SOURCE Maria Luna

Maria Luna

CONTACT: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58936338/space-command


-------
Profile: intent