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Clint Eastwood Directs "Space Cowboys"
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Summer 1999 — Clint Eastwood directs a scene from "Space Cowboys" (Warner Bros. 2000) at the private Agua Dulce Airpark, aka Agua Dulce Airport. (Note the private aircraft in the background.)

8x10 Warner Bros. publicity photo by Ken Regan. Cutline reads:

Director, producer and star Clint Eastwood on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures' high tech adventure, "Space Cowboys." The film also stars Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner.

"Space Cowboys" was directed by Clint Eastwood from an original screenplay by Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner.

Principal filming took place from July 19, 1999, to October 19, 1999, in multiple locations in California, Texas and Florida. Several Santa Clarita Valley locations were used, most notably Agua Dulce Airpark (33638 Agua Dulce Canyon Road) and the Halfway House Cafe in Mint Canyon (15564 Sierra Highway) — but also a dirt airstrip at the west end of S.O.S. FilmWorks (34855 Petersen Road, near Old Mint Canyon Road and Sierra Highway in Auga Dulce); Six Flags Magic Mountain; and Piru United Methodist Church (3875 Center Street).

The film premiered August 1, 2000. Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman earned an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Editing, while Eastwood was nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (USA). "Space Cowboys" won Best Foreign Language Film honors in Japan.


LW3560: 9600 dpi jpeg from original photograph purchased 2019 by Leon Worden.
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