The Team Behind ‘Independence Day 2’ Is Making A Film About The Moon Crashing Into The Earth
Have disaster movies gone too far?
Independence Day: Resurgence has been in theatres for less than a week, and already director Roland Emmerich is coming up with new ways to destroy the world. According to Deadline, Universal Pictures has just paid seven figures for a new spec script written by Emmerich, Harald Kloser and Spencer Cohen, about “an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards the earth”.
We swear, you can’t make this stuff up.
Moonfall (great title) will mark the seventh collaboration between Emmerich and Kloser, who previously worked together on The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, White House Down and the recent Independence Day sequel. We’re not sure why the pair is so hell-bent on global destruction, but you can’t deny that they’re good at what they do.
Never gets old.
It’s also probably for the best that Emmerich is sticking with disaster movies, since he doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to (comparatively) small scale dramas. Critics and the LGBTIQ community at large absolutely savaged Stonewall, his film about the Stonewall riots, accusing it of marginalising trans characters and individuals of colour while focusing on a white, cisgendered protagonist. Meanwhile, the less said about his Shakespeare truther movie Anonymous, the better off we’ll all be.
At the same time, it’ll be interesting to see whether audiences are excited at the prospect of seeing the world’s major cities blown to pieces yet again. Between Batman vs. Superman, X-Men: Apocalypse, London Has Fallen and Independence Day 2, it’s already been a banner year for computer generated destruction. Yet the box office returns on Emmerich’s latest opus suggests that watching millions of people killed by falling debris may not be as big a draw as it used to be.
Expect to see Moonfall in cinemas at some point in 2018.
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h/t: Deadline