PREVIEW: Moonfall (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring), John Bradley (American Satan), Michael Peña (Ant-Man), Charlie Plummer (Words on Bathroom Walls), Kelly Yu (Twenty), Donald Sutherland (Don’t Look Now), Eme Ikwuakor (Ink), Carolina Bartczak (An Audience of Chairs), Maxim Roy (Stay with Me), Stephen Bogaert (American Psycho), Azriel Dalman (Through Darkness I See You)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), director, writer, producer; Harald Kloser (2012), writer, producer; Spenser Cohen (Extinction), writer; Thomas Wander (Midway), composer; Robby Baumgartner (Blindspotting), cinematographer; Ryan Stevens Harris (Gone Astray) and Adam Wolfe (White House Down), editors

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

When the Moon is knocked from its orbit by unknown forces, it is put on a collision course with Earth. In a bid to save the planet from complete annihilation, astronauts Jo (Berry) and Brian (Wilson) team with conspiracy theorist K.C. (Bradley) for an impossible mission where they discover that the Moon might not be as it seems…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Roland Emmerich is back to making the kinds of disaster movies that he became known for, with this self-financed sci-fi adventure that positions the Moon as the biggest threat to mankind.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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