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October 24, 2005 —

From SciFi Wire:

Dax Shepard, who plays an astronaut in Jon Favreau's upcoming SF family film Zathura, told SCI FI Wire the movie marks his second adventure in time travel. Shepard plays an astronaut who says he travels through a "time sphincter" wormhole when he meets up with two boys. Next year, in Idiocracy, Shepard plays one of the dumbest guys on the planet about 500 years in the future.

"There wasn't much to prepare for the role," Shepard said about Zathura. "It wasn't like they had to put me in the space program. I think the biggest preparation I had to do was to put on the space suit." Shepard's character is part of a board game the boys find, which blasts them and their house into space.

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