Aside from “oh god, please make it stop” and “what the hell are you doing mark rylance, one of the thoughts that raced through our heads while we watched Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up was”God, we cannot wait for Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall.” And, as if Emmerich himself heard our mental cries for help through the collective unconsciousness, Lionsgate decided to show up and demonstrate to everyone what a true catastrophic collision with Earth would look like. On Monday morning, the studio dropped the first five minutes of Moonfall for you to watch in the comfort of your own home, and we have to say, this looks like a whole lot of incredibly dumb fun. Tornados on the moon! Bad banter! Patrick Wilson! How do you get any better than this?
Take a look:
Here’s a synopsis, which barely manages to contain all the batshit nuts stuff that Emmerich and company have in store for us:
“In ‘Moonfall,’ a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all — but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, ‘Midway’) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, ‘Game of Thrones) believes her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.”
Moonfall hits theaters on February 4, and even better, they’ve brought back the old-school “fake website” viral promotion phenomenon, which used to be so much more of a thing back before social media really took over. Check it out here, and be prepared to laugh heartily.