Patrick Wilson joins Halle Berry in Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Halle Berry is going to have to save the world in MOONFALL, the latest disaster epic from director Roland Emmerich, and thankfully she'll have some solid support in this endeavor. It has been announced that INSIDIOUS and THE CONJURING star Patrick Wilson has signed on to join Berry in the film.

Written by Emmerich, Harald Kloser, and Spenser Cohen, MOONFALL will show us what happens when  

the moon is knocked from its orbit by a mysterious force and set on a collision course with Earth. With just weeks to go before impact, a ragtag team is sent on a seemingly impossible mission to land on the lunar surface and save humanity.

Berry will be playing "a NASA astronaut-turned-administrator whose previous space mission holds a clue about an impending catastrophe". Wilson's character is "a disgraced former NASA astronaut whose last mission, which ended in tragedy, holds a clue about the impending catastrophe." So these two obviously have a history together.

Charlie Plummer is on board to play the teenage son of Wilson's character, and Josh Gad will be taking on the role of a guy who is "odd and unkempt in a way that suggests a high level of intelligence and an equally high level of disorganization. He is a genius who correctly predicts that the moon has fallen out of its orbit, thus making the space-obsessed, profoundly unfiltered and eccentric man one of the most important people on Earth." That definitely sounds like an Emmerich character.

MOONFALL is aiming to start filming in Montreal this fall. Emmerich is independently producing and financing through his company Centropolis, overseeing all aspects of production and delivery. Kloser is also producing, through his company Street Entertainment. Lionsgate holds the North American distribution rights and are aiming to release the film sometime in 2021.

I can't say I've been a big fan of Emmerich's global disaster movies, but maybe MOONFALL will turn out to be one that I like more than the others. It has to be better than INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE, right? The director has even said that he shouldn't have made that movie.