Josh Gad has been cast in Roland Emmerich’s science-fiction project “Moonfall,” which has been set up at Lionsgate.“Moonfall” centers on a mysterious force knocking the moon from its orbit around Earth, which sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
In response, a ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space to land on the lunar surface and save Earth from annihilation.
Gad will portray a scientific genius who has correctly concluded that the moon has fallen out of its orbit.“Moonfall” will be directed by Emmerich from a script he wrote with his “2012” co-writer Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen.
Emmerich is producing under his Centropolis banner with Kloser producing through his company, Street Entertainment.Agc sold North American rights to Lionsgate in November in the wake of the studio seeing respectable box office from its handling the release of Emmerich’s World War II drama “Midway.
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