Some males simply need to watch the world burn. Or tear itself to items. Or explode a number of million instances. One of these males is director Roland Emmerich, whose profession primarily consists of catastrophe films each massive (Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow) and small (Midway, White House Down, the godawful 1998 U.S. Godzilla film). But his greatest catastrophe ever—actually and sure figuratively—is coming quickly, and it’s titled Moonfall.

In which the moon, as you might need suspected, falls. On Earth. Please, behold this trailer in all of its WTF glory:

The moon certain does make a multitude of Earth in quite a lot of distinctive and doubtlessly contradictory methods! But Moonfall isn’t simply in regards to the moon falling in your heads. Note the flowery area station seen within the trailer, after which learn the movie’s official abstract:

“In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. 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, Midway) and conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, Game of Thrones) 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.”

This film is clearly an Armageddon rip-off with raised (and enlarged) stakes, however between the abstract and a few of the trailer’s weirder pictures—like Patrick Wilson gazing both an area ghost boy or a youthful model of himself?—it looks like Emmerich is likely to be making an attempt to place an Arrival/Interstellar spin on the movie, which ought to show to be outstandingly goofy.

If I sound overly damaging in regards to the film… you’re listening to me clearly. Roland Emmerich is a much less proficient Michael Bay. Other than his beloved Independence Day, his movies are stinkers. However, Moonfall appears to be like so ridiculous it might hit that very same Independence Day candy spot, the place the stupidity and cacophony handle to be entertaining as a substitute of annoying.

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Either method, I’m going to name it right here and now: regardless of the leeway science fiction often will get, I predict Moonfall would be the most scientifically inaccurate film ever made. I really feel extraordinarily assured about this, primarily due to how massive Emmerich believes the moon is:

Moonfall, which additionally stars Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland, premieres on February 4, 2022. I can’t wait.

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