There doesn't seem to be any middle ground when it comes to Roland Emmerich. Whether you roll your eyes at the very thought of sitting through the director's latest disaster-piece or rejoice at the prospect of more relentless big-screen destruction, a new trailer for Moonfall is now online, and it's... definitely a Roland Emmerich movie!
This latest teaser is full of the planet-levelling mayhem and melodrama we've come to expect from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, and confirms that some kind of Extraterrestrial threat is responsible for the moon's bizarre behaviour.
Patrick Wilson (Aquaman) plays a disgraced former NASA astronaut whose last mission, which ended in tragedy, holds a clue about the impending catastrophe. Halle Berry (John Wick Chapter 3) is playing an astronaut-turned-NASA administrator who is a former colleague of Wilson's character. Together with the likes of Charlie Plummer (Boardwalk Empire), John Bradley (Game of Thrones), and Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games), they must race against time to stop a potential sixth extinction event.
“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.