Moonfall boasts the pretty incredible tagline: “The moon will come to us”.
Filmmaker Roland Emmerich is someone who likes to blow stuff up, something that he’s proven with the likes of disaster flicks Independence Day, its sequel, his take on Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012.
While these blockbusters vary somewhat in quality, their scenes of carnage are generally worth the price of a cinema ticket and the large popcorn and soda audiences should enjoy them with.
Emmerich’s cinema of destruction will continue with his new film Moonfall, set to arrive in theatres next year.
The plot synopsis reads:
“In Moonfall, 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 (Halle Berry, X-Men) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, Insidious) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (Game of Thrones’ John Bradley) believes her.
“These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.”
On top of this, the trailer appears to suggest aliens may be behind the Moon’s radical behaviour, which also brings to mind arguably Emmerich’s best film to date – Independence Day.
Also part of the stacked cast for Moonfall is Michael Peña (Ant-Man), Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete) and Donald Sutherland (The Undoing), with the film set for a release in theatres in Ireland on 4 February, 2022.
Check out its newly released teaser trailer below.
Clip via Lionsgate Movies
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