Roland Emmerich is blasting off on his latest film, which finds the “Independence Day” director returning to space for one of the biggest projects to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival market.Emmerich will co-write and direct “Moonfall,” which will be presented to buyers at Cannes with Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance jointly handling worldwide sales.Emmerich will co-write the film with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen.
The story is a sci-fi action epic in which a ragtag team of astronauts is forced to land on the moon’s surface when the moon is knocked out of Earth’s orbit, sending it hurtling on a collision course with Earth and threatening all of mankind.
Read the full synopsis below:The Moon.
It controls our nights, our days, the seasons, and our ocean tides.
And since the beginning of humankind,
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