The first trailer for Lionsgate's Moonfall is now online, and it promises the usual Earth-in-peril thrills and melodrama we've come to expect from Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich.
The plot deals with the aftermath of the moon being knocked from its orbit by a mysterious force and set on a collision course with Earth. A team is then assembled and sent on a perilous mission to land on the lunar surface and save the planet.
Patrick Wilson (Aquaman) plays a disgraced former NASA astronaut whose last mission, which ended in tragedy, holds a clue about the impending catastrophe. Charlie Plummer (Boardwalk Empire) has been cast as his teenage son. Halle Berry (John Wick Chapter 3) is playing an astronaut-turned-NASA administrator who is a former colleague of Wilson's character, while Josh Gad (Frozen) will portray the eccentric genius who deduces that the moon is heading right for Earth.
Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Eme Ikwuakor (Inhumans) will also appear in undisclosed roles.
This looks... like a Roland Emmerich movie! If that's your thing, the trailer should have the desired effect.
“With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley), believe 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.”
Moonfall is set to hit theaters on February 4, 2022.
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