I am pretty sure Roland Emmerich is the director of the blockbuster movies that have put our beloved planet Earth in imminent destruction peril. Sometimes being alien forces the ones threatening the destruction of our species in Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and its sequel Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), a monster created by human-made nuclear experiments in Godzilla (1998), or the devastating effects of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 2012 (2009). In his upcoming movie the menace comes out of space again, but this time it is more familiar than alien species. This time the Moon is out of orbit and threatens to collide against Earth.
In Moonfall (2022), a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find that they might have prepared for the wrong mission.
Roland Emmerich has teamed up with his frequent score composer Harald Kloser, who already co-wrote with him the screenplays for Dark Horse (2012), 2012 (2009), and 10,000 BC (2008), and Spenser Cohen, one of the writers of Extinction (2018), to develop the screenplay of Moonfall (2022).
The main cast of the movie is formed by Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Plummer, Wenwen Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, Ava Weiss, Maxim Roy, and Stephen Bogaert.
Moonfall (2022) is rated PG-13 for violence, disaster action, strong language, and some drug use. Lionsgate has scheduled the release of the movie worldwide for February 4, 2022.
Here you can watch the official trailer for Moonfall (2022).
