Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have joined the cast of Roland Emmerich’s next disaster movie, Moonfall.
Bradley (Game of Thrones) has been cast as K.C. Houseman, the eccentric genius who discovers that the moon has been pushed out of its orbit and into a collision path with Earth. Josh Gad was originally cast in the role, but Deadline reports he’s left the film “over scheduling conflicts.” Meanwhile, Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Tucci (The Lovely Bones, Spotlight, Big Night) will play Tom Phillips, “a wealthy car dealer, who’s married to Brian Harper’s (Patrick Wilson) ex-wife.”
Besides Wilson, the cast also includes Halle Berry, Charlie Plummer, and Randy Thomas. Wilson’s Harper is a disgraced former astronaut whose last, disastrous, mission holds a clue to the impending disaster. Berry also plays a former astronaut, now a NASA administrator.
Emmerich, the disaster movie legend (2012, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day), is directing from a script that he cowrote with Harald Kloser (2012) and Spenser Cohen (Extinction). Emmerich is producing the independent feature film under his Centropolis Entertainment banner, with Kloser producing through his own Street Entertainment. Executive producers include Ute Emmerich, Carsten Lorenz, J.P. Pettinato, Marco Shepherd, and Omar Sotto.
Filming is slated to begin in Montreal this month, with a hoped-for theatrical release in 2022.
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