Apollo 13 news clips and a narrator's solemn voice deal with the actual problems. "Houston... We've Got a Problem" was also the title of an episode of the BBC documentary series "A Life At Stake", broadcast in March 1978. This was an accurate, if simplified, reconstruction of the events. Lovell was approached in 1991 by journalist Jeffrey Kluger about collaborating on a non-fiction account of the mission. The resultant book, "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13", was published in 1994. The next year, in 1995, a film adaptation of the book, "Apollo 13", was released, directed by Ron Howard and
Tom Hanks October 2015 to a positive reception. In April 2016, Hanks starred as Alan Clay in the comedy-drama "A Hologram for the King", an adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name. Hanks starred as airline captain Chesley Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood's "Sully", which was released in September 2016. He next reprised his role as Robert Langdon in "Inferno" (2016), and co-starred alongside Emma Watson in the 2017 science fiction drama "The Circle". He voiced David S. Pumpkins in "The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special", which aired October 28, 2017, on NBC, a character he had portrayed in episodes