Halle Berry to Star in Roland Emmerich’s Space Epic ‘Moonfall’
Halle Berry is going galactic.
The actress will star alongside Josh Gad in “Moonfall,” a sci-fi space epic from director Roland Emmerich.“Moonfall” centers on a mysterious force knocking the moon from its orbit around Earth, which sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
In response, a ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space to land on the lunar surface and save Earth from annihilation.Berry will play a Nasa astronaut-turned-administrator, whose previous space mission holds a clue about an impending catastrophe.
Gad will portray a scientific genius who has correctly concluded that the moon has fallen out of its orbit.
Emmerich will direct the movie from a script he penned with his “2012” co-writer Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen.Lionsgate plans to release the movie in 2021 and has slated for production to begin this fall in Montreal, pending safety measures around the coronavirus pandemic.
