{"id":13360,"date":"2020-05-19T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2020-05-20T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:54:11","slug":"halle-berry-set-to-star-in-old-school-roland-emmerich-disaster-movie-moonfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/halle-berry-roland-emmerich-disaster-movie-moonfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry Set To Star In Old-School Roland Emmerich Disaster Movie, ‘Moonfall’"},"content":{"rendered":"

People like myself who came of age in the ’90s know that there is one specific movie genre that defines that decade: the disaster movie. If the sky was falling (literally and figuratively), there was no premise too ridiculous for Hollywood not to make a movie about it. Armageddon<\/em>, Pearl Harbo<\/em>r, Twister<\/em>, Independence Day<\/em>, Dante’s Peak<\/em>, Volcano<\/em>, Deep Impact<\/em>, Hard Rain<\/em>\u00a0to name just a few. Hell, James Cameron even won a bajillion Oscars by taking a disaster movie and dressing it up in period drama clothes with Titanic.<\/em><\/p>\n

All due respect to Michael Bay, but my pick for the best disaster movie director is Roland Emmerich. So it was with great joy that I read today courtesy of THR<\/a> that Halle Berry is set to join Emmerich’s Moonfall<\/em>, which was also written by Emmerich. And the plot Roland Emmerichs about as hard as a movie ever Roland Emmeriched: The moon gets knocked out of orbit when it’s struck by an asteroid and is sent hurtling to Earth. With just weeks before impact, a ragtag but plucky team is assembled to travel to the moon and save humanity.<\/p>\n

Berry will reportedly be playing a former astronaut turned NASA administrator whose previous mission might hold a clue to saving the world. This will be her next tentpole after John Wick 3<\/em>, a movie that she and her attack dogs absolutely stole<\/a>. Berry joins Josh Gad, who was previously signed. Gad is playing the obligatory disaster movie character: the eccentric scientist who first discerns that something has gone awry and disaster is heading Earth’s way. Because you can’t have a disaster movie without politicians in charge ignoring the scientist’s dire warnings and writing him off as a kook. Or Earth in 2020. Whatever.<\/p>\n

The movie will be distributed by Lionsgate, which is hoping for a production start date this fall with a release set for sometime in 2021. Just as he did with his previous film, last year’s Midway, Emmerich will be independently producing and financing Moonfall<\/em> under his Centropolis banner,\u00a0overseeing all aspects of production, financing and delivery. Midway didn’t exactly kill it at the box office, thanks largely to feeling (at least on the surface; it very much wasn’t in reality) a retread of 2017’s Dunkirk, and releasing in the same year as Oscar darling 1917<\/em><\/a>. But Moonfall<\/em> feels like exactly the sort of film that could strike it big at the box office. If movies like Venom<\/em> or The Meg<\/em> have shown us anything in the past few years, it’s that audiences will flock to a big, action-packed movie that doesn’t take itself seriously. Sometimes, we just need big, implausible fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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