Moonfall: Roland Emmerich (Independence Day: Resurgence, above) will direct Moonfall, a sci-fi movie that will follow "an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth." It's based on an original script by Emmerich, Harold Kloser (2012) and Spencer Cohen. Reportedly, the project will head into production as soon as possible. [Deadline] John Boyega: Before he broke out with his performance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Boyega starred in Attack the Block (above), a rollicking comedy about an alien invasion in a tough British neighborhood. Joe Cornish wrote and directed the movie and now Boyega has hinted that the two may be working together again. Via social media, he stated...
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- 6/27/2016
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Moonfall: Roland Emmerich (Independence Day: Resurgence, above) will direct Moonfall, a sci-fi movie that will follow "an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the Moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards Earth." It's based on an original script by Emmerich, Harold Kloser (2012) and Spencer Cohen. Reportedly, the project will head into production as soon as possible. [Deadline] John Boyega: Before he broke out with his performance in...
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- 6/27/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
German director Emmerich sells script to Universal and is set to direct the sci-fi story.
Roland Emmerich has sold his sci-fi script Moonfall to Universal and is set to direct the project for the studio.
Emmerich, whose Independence Day: Resurgence (pictured) opens this weekend in North America and around 60 international territories, wrote the script with Harald Kloser and Spencer Cohen. Emmerich and Kloser, who composed the music for Resurgence and several other Emmerich films and co-wrote 2012 and 10,000 BC with the director, will produce.
Moonfall centres on an astronaut and his team called into service when the moon falls out of orbit and heads for a collision with the earth.
Sony Pictures was reportedly also in the running for the project.
Independence Day: Resurgence, sequel to Emmerich’s 1996 smash Independence Day, opened at more than 4,000 North American locations on Thursday (June 23) through 20thCentury Fox. The original film had a $50.2m domestic opening weekend and went on to gross...
Roland Emmerich has sold his sci-fi script Moonfall to Universal and is set to direct the project for the studio.
Emmerich, whose Independence Day: Resurgence (pictured) opens this weekend in North America and around 60 international territories, wrote the script with Harald Kloser and Spencer Cohen. Emmerich and Kloser, who composed the music for Resurgence and several other Emmerich films and co-wrote 2012 and 10,000 BC with the director, will produce.
Moonfall centres on an astronaut and his team called into service when the moon falls out of orbit and heads for a collision with the earth.
Sony Pictures was reportedly also in the running for the project.
Independence Day: Resurgence, sequel to Emmerich’s 1996 smash Independence Day, opened at more than 4,000 North American locations on Thursday (June 23) through 20thCentury Fox. The original film had a $50.2m domestic opening weekend and went on to gross...
- 6/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
While Independence Day: Resurgence isn’t going over as well as the original, we found some things to appreciate. Nonetheless, Roland Emmerich is already gearing up for another sci-fi mammoth. Deadline reports Emmerich is teaming up with long-time collaborating writer Harald Kloser for Moonfall, which the pair wrote together in 2012 with screenwriter Spencer Cohen. Apparently a mix between Emmerich’s own 2012 and Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Moonfall’s titular event is quite literal as a band of misfits must unite to save our planet and everyone on it when the moon drops from orbit and plummets towards Earth.
There’s no dates attached to the project, but it has been fast-tracked by Universal and will be co-produced by Emmerich and Kloser. In the meantime, read our review of Independence Day: Resurgence and watch a video essay on why the original has held up after 20 years.
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There’s no dates attached to the project, but it has been fast-tracked by Universal and will be co-produced by Emmerich and Kloser. In the meantime, read our review of Independence Day: Resurgence and watch a video essay on why the original has held up after 20 years.
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- 6/24/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Roland Emmerich, Hollywood’s undisputed master of cinematic destruction, is remaining firmly in the genre of disaster porn for his next project.
It’s called Moonfall and, according to Deadline, has been snapped up by Universal in a deal said to be in the seven-figure ballpark. Working from his own spec script, the sci-fi flick paves the way for a reunion between Emmerich and Harald Kloser after 2012, who will be working closely with Spencer Cohen on the screenplay.
Boasting an all-too-familiar premise of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, Moonfall is said to follow “an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth.” Hence the title.
Taking the global scope of 2012 and infusing it with the sci-fi elements of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Moonfall stands as the seventh collaboration between Emmerich and Kloser and by this stage in the game,...
It’s called Moonfall and, according to Deadline, has been snapped up by Universal in a deal said to be in the seven-figure ballpark. Working from his own spec script, the sci-fi flick paves the way for a reunion between Emmerich and Harald Kloser after 2012, who will be working closely with Spencer Cohen on the screenplay.
Boasting an all-too-familiar premise of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, Moonfall is said to follow “an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth.” Hence the title.
Taking the global scope of 2012 and infusing it with the sci-fi elements of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Moonfall stands as the seventh collaboration between Emmerich and Kloser and by this stage in the game,...
- 6/24/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Surprise, surprise: Independence Day and Independence Day: Resurgence director Roland Emmerich has lined up another disaster movie to direct. Deadline reports that Universal has acquired the rights to a spec script he wrote with 2012 collaborator Harold Kloser and writer Spencer Cohen called Moonfall. And if you know anything about Roland Emmerich movies, I bet you can guess exactly what it's going to be about.
Yep, the story is described as "2012 mashed together with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, following an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth." How any character would be able to accomplish such a task remains to be seen, but I'm betting there will be explosions galore and at least a massive wave or two as the moon throws off the balance of the ocean tides. The studio bought this idea for...
Yep, the story is described as "2012 mashed together with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, following an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth." How any character would be able to accomplish such a task remains to be seen, but I'm betting there will be explosions galore and at least a massive wave or two as the moon throws off the balance of the ocean tides. The studio bought this idea for...
- 6/24/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Just as his "Independence Day: Resurgence" hits cinemas, filmmaker Roland Emmerich is setting up another sci-fi event feature with the spec script "Moonfall" being picked up by Universal Pictures.
Emmerich, Harald Kloser ("The Day After Tomorrow") and Spencer Cohen ("Extinction") penned the script about a band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth. The film is described as "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" meets "2012".
The picture will be fast-tracked to serve as Emmerich's next directing effort and he will also produce the film with Kloser.
Source: Deadline...
Emmerich, Harald Kloser ("The Day After Tomorrow") and Spencer Cohen ("Extinction") penned the script about a band of misfits who must unite to save humanity when the moon falls out of orbit and hurtles towards earth. The film is described as "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" meets "2012".
The picture will be fast-tracked to serve as Emmerich's next directing effort and he will also produce the film with Kloser.
Source: Deadline...
- 6/24/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: As the Roland Emmerich-directed sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence kicks off the first weekend of summer box office in North America today, Universal Pictures has closed a deal for the filmmaker’s next epic-sized sci-fi picture. The studio spent seven figures to acquire Moonfall[/link], a spec script that Emmerich wrote with his 2012 collaborator Harald Kloser and Spencer Cohen, latter of whom scripted the sci-fi pic Extinction for Good Universe and…...
- 6/24/2016
- Deadline
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