In today’s film news roundup, Patrick Wilson, Charlie Plummer and Miles Teller score roles in upcoming movies, and Stx moves its Gerard Butler sci-fier “Greenland” back two weeks.CastingsPatrick Wilson will star alongside Halle Berry and Josh Gad in Roland Emmerich’s forthcoming science fiction epic “Moonfall.”Charlie Plummer is also joining the cast.
Lionsgate acquired North American rights to “Moonfall” late last year and plans a 2021 release.“Moonfall” centers on a mysterious force knocking the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sending it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
A ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space to prevent annihilation.Wilson will play a disgraced former Nasa astronaut whose previous space mission holds a clue about an impending catastrophe.
Plummer plays Wilson’s character’s teenage son.
Wilson is re-uniting with Emmerich after collaborating together in last fall’s “Midway.
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