Big Bada-Boom!
He invaded the world in Independence Day, he froze it in The Day After Tomorrow, then he pretty much obliterated it even more in 2012. Now Roland Emmerich is going to spend $100m dropping the moon on it, the crazy German bastard!
Emmerich wrote the script with partners Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen. He will direct himself. No cast is yet in place but personally, this sounds like a job for The Rock, all day long!
The project was previously set up at Universal but that fell through. He will be taking it round Cannes this year to tie a deal on it ahead of a 2020 shoot.
Emmerich hit Cannes last year to shop the WW2 action film Midway which is now one of the biggest-budget independent films ever.
That movie s already in the can and out in the autumn.
Bye-Bye, New York… Again?
The hastily assembled team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space to land on the lunar surface and save our planet. But first, they must fight the unknown power responsible that will challenge everything we know about ourselves and the universe.
So Armageddon meets The Ghosts Of Mars / Mission To Mars with just a dash of 2001 thrown in?
Either way, a moon fragment is probably being CGI’d heading for the Big Apple as we speak.
