Roland Emmerich has,
in his time, made a lot of ridiculous disaster movies. He had mankind take on
aliens. Godzilla. Giant spiders. The Mayan apocalypse. And now, he’s preparing
to guide humanity through a trial with its greatest foe yet: the moon.
As reported by the
Hollywood Reporter, Patrick Wilson (Aquaman) will be signing on alongside Halle
Berry and Josh Gad to star in Moonfall,
Emmerich’s latest project. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard from this
film—it’s been in the works for years—but now, for some reason, Hollywood has
decided that the thing we need as a distraction from our mounting real problems
is another, larger, very moon-shaped problem. I don’t get it, but I do respect
it. Kind of.
Charlie Plummer (Looking for Alaska) also signed on to join the
film, which is set to start production in Montreal in the fall, with
distribution handled by Lionsgate. The plot, as described by THR, has a sort of
demented Armageddon vibe to it,
chronicling a “ragtag team” of astronauts sent to stop the moon,
which has, for mysterious reasons, been unseated from its orbit and is now on a
collision course with the Earth.
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Emmerich will be
financing and producing the film independently. It’s tentatively slated for
2021.
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