If the moon isn’t what we think it is, then what is it?
The director breaks down the trailer for his disaster movie with EW.
It might be the oldest warning of disaster in the book: “The sky is falling!
John Bradley in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
Check out his insights and teases below.
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The first character to appear in the new Moonfall trailer is K.C.
Houseman (Game of Thrones’John Bradley).
Patrick Wilson in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
“That links him with this observatory in Chile, and he gets information from that.
Because of that, he has this shocking discovery that the moon is actually falling to Earth.”
What’s a megastructure, you ask?
People are not happy about the lunar disaster in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
“Which is understandable because NASA knows that the moon is not what we think it is.
Who built the moon?
Could it actually be a megastructure akin to the Dyson sphere at the center ofN.K.
Donald Sutherland in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
Jemisin’s comicFar Sector?
“Some people believe that megastructures are a built shell around a star,” Emmerich says.
“Enormous, enormous structures that are more or less like a cage around a captured star.”
Halle Berry in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
Cover-up
What did NASA know about the moon, and when did they know about it?
That’s what senior NASA official Jocinda Fowler (Halle Berry) would like to know.
“It started with Apollo 11, where there was this two-minute radio silence.
The moon causes all kinds of gravity disruptions in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
During that time, they saw light emanating from the moon’s surface.
That’s when they first realized the moon was hollow.”
Nevertheless, real-life NASA was happy to help with the production ofMoonfall, according to Emmerich.
‘Moonfall’ becomes a race against time to save both Earth and the moon from destruction.Lionsgate
Who fire off the moon?
They’re all her ideas.”
“So it gets really crazy.”
Something living is inside the moon in ‘Moonfall.'.Lionsgate
Race against time
Emmerich likes each of his disaster movies to feel different from the others.
I’m always trying to mix it up,” Emmerich explains.
On the other hand, on Earth, their kids are getting into serious trouble.
It’s the best of both worlds."
It’s alive!
If the moon is indeed a megastructure inMoonfall, then what is inside it?
This scary swarm, for one!
“It took a while, but in the end, I’m very happy with it.
It looks like a nano swarm artificial intelligence.”
Moonfallcrashes into theaters Feb. 4.
