Production on Moonfall is now officially underway in Montreal, Canada, and director Roland Emmerich has taken to Twitter to announce the news while giving us a first glimpse of his latest sci-fi diaster movie via some logo artwork.
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) will play 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.
Deadline has announced that Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Eme Ikwuakor (Inhumans) have also joined the cast.
Emmerich co-wrote the script with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, and will also produce under his Centropolis banner.
Moonfall is expected to hit theaters in 2022.
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