IGN has your exclusive first look at the teaser trailer for Moonfall, the next sci-fi disaster epic from Independence Day and 2012 filmmaker Roland Emmerich. You can watch the Moonfall trailer in the player above or via the embed below.
In addition to directing Moonfall, Emmerich is also one of the writers along with Harald Kloser & Spenser Cohen, as well as a producer with Kloser.
Moonfall sees “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,” according to the official plot synopsis:
“With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (Game of Thrones’ John Bradley) believe 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.”
The trailer depicts all this apocalyptic lunar-cy unfolding over audio excerpts from President John F. Kennedy’s historic 1962 speech at Rice Stadium where he said: “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? … We choose to go to the moon … and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
The teaser’s tagline darkly riffs on Kennedy’s cosmic optimism with a far less cheery promise of its own: “In the year 2022, the moon will come to us.”
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Moonfall opens on February 4, 2022, in the US and UK and in Australia on February 3, 2022.