Roland Emmerich's Moon Disaster Film MOONFALL Adds Stanley Tucci and John Bradley
Stanley Tucci and John Bradley (Game of Thrones) are the latest actors to join writer and director Roland Emmerich’s upcoming moon disaster film, Moonfall. They join the previously cast Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Charlie Plummer.
Emmerich has never had a problem filling his casts with great actors, regardless of how mediocre his movies are. The story for this next film revolves around a “mysterious force that 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 against all odds, a ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love and risking everything to land on the lunar surface and save our planet from annihilation.”
If you take the moon out of the equation, this is the exact same plot as Armageddon. Wilson will take on the role of Ben Harper, a disgraced former NASA astronaut whose last mission, which ended in tragedy, holds a clue about the impending catastrophe. Plummer will play his teenage son.
Berry is playing a former colleague of Wilson’s character. Tucci will take on the role of Tom Phillips, a wealthy car dealer who’s married to Harper’s ex-wife, while Bradley is KC Houseman, an eccentric and unkempt genius who discovers that the moon has fallen out of its orbit. Josh Gad was originally cast in the role, but he dropped out.
Lionsgate will release the film sometime in 2022.
Source: Deadline