Roland Emmerich has become a genre unto himself. Give the director 100 million dollars and a star-studded cast, and pitch him any extreme situation--aliens, tsunamis, earthquakes, monsters, terrorists--and he makes it work. So pairing him with a comet in the disaster movie Moonfall should be a slam dunk, right?
Emmerich, who has wreaked so much havoc in Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow, expands his modus operandi to the outer limits of space, where a moon, comet and alien hurtle toward earth. In the film, writers Harold Kloster and Spenser Cohen have upped the ante, throwing every possible disaster at the screen. But they've forgotten about one thing: coherence.
When a spacecraft carrying research samples from NASA explodes in the atmosphere--Patrick Wilson appears in this bonkers riff on Gravity, with a giant alien--scattering its debris across the galaxy, Brian, Jocinda (Halle Berry) and Alan (Frank Fiola) are understandably traumatized. It...
Emmerich, who has wreaked so much havoc in Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow, expands his modus operandi to the outer limits of space, where a moon, comet and alien hurtle toward earth. In the film, writers Harold Kloster and Spenser Cohen have upped the ante, throwing every possible disaster at the screen. But they've forgotten about one thing: coherence.
When a spacecraft carrying research samples from NASA explodes in the atmosphere--Patrick Wilson appears in this bonkers riff on Gravity, with a giant alien--scattering its debris across the galaxy, Brian, Jocinda (Halle Berry) and Alan (Frank Fiola) are understandably traumatized. It...
- 2/5/2022
- by Asher Luberto
- DailyDead
After blowing up the White House in "Independence Day," flooding New York City in "The Day After Tomorrow," and unleashing all sorts of natural disasters in "2012," how else can director Roland Emmerich wreak havoc on our poor little planet? Why, having the moon attack Earth, of course! That's the setup for the filmmaker's next project, "Moonfall," and you can now watch the first five minutes now.
"Moonfall" begins with a spaceship orbiting our home world, and astronaut Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson at his most adorkable) discussing the lyrics to Toto's rock classic "Africa" with his co-worker Alan Marcus (Frank Fiola) and "work wife" Jo...
The post Watch the Moon Fall in the First Five Minutes of Moonfall appeared first on /Film.
"Moonfall" begins with a spaceship orbiting our home world, and astronaut Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson at his most adorkable) discussing the lyrics to Toto's rock classic "Africa" with his co-worker Alan Marcus (Frank Fiola) and "work wife" Jo...
The post Watch the Moon Fall in the First Five Minutes of Moonfall appeared first on /Film.
- 12/13/2021
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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