Roland Emmerich's MOONFALL

MOONFALL

Studio: LIONSGATE / SUMMIT

Prod Co: CENTROPOLIS

Dates: Targeting July 2020

Location: Montreal and LA

Budget: $110M

Execs: Studio Executive: Eda Kowan, Jason Constantine

Staff: Writer (Current): Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Spencer Cohen

Producer: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Marco Shepherd

Director: Roland Emmerich

Casting Director: John Papsidera

Cast: Talent: Mark Wahlberg [BRYAN HARPER: Interested In]

Logline: When the moon goes out of orbit and threatens to destroy the Earth, an astronaut and a conspiracy theorist join forces to prove that
the moon is really a massive alien spaceship and save the day.

Roles:

[BRYAN HARPER]
Lead Male (40)
Former astronaut who became a pariah because of his claims of seeing alien ships in space and now works at the planetarium. When conspiracy theorist KC HASSELMAN confronts Bryan with his theory that the moon is a massive alien space ship that will be knocked out of orbit by an approaching asteroid, Bryan ignores him, but when the moon ends up getting knocked out of orbit, Bryan looks up KC, and together, they approach AARON FOWLER, NASA Director, and then the PRESIDENT, who authorizes a mission to the moon. Bryan and his team run into a major obstacle when a tidal wave caused by the moon wipes out the launch site at Cape Canaveral, and so they head to LA, where they move the Endeavor through the riot-torn streets of Compton to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Even though the President calls off the mission, they go anyway - and fly into the moon, where they find that it is, indeed, a massive alien space ship, except that all the aliens have died or fled except one. As Bryan's son SONNY and ex-wife's husband TOM work to forestall a launch of a hundred nuclear missiles at the moon, Bryan jumpstarts the moon's engines. The moon crashes into the Rocky Mountains, but Bryan pilots the moon back into orbit, and he, LILLIAN and Fowler return home to Earth, while KC stays with the lone alien aboard the moon.
Interested In Mark Wahlberg

[KC HOUSEMAN]
Supporting Male (30 - 39)
Conspiracy theorist. "Coke-bottle glasses. Pants too bug. Unwashed string hair." He confronts Bryan with his theory about the moon, and Bryan only believes him after the moon's knocked out of orbit. KC leads Bryan and Fowler to his source in the government, and they in turn go to the President. KC ends up joining Bryan, Fowler and Lillian on their mission, and he ends up staying on the moon when everything's said and done.

[SONNY]
Supporting Male (18)
Bryan's son. "He's got a tough guy attitude, but you know he grew up with money." He gets in trouble with the police for trying to elude them after a drug deal and ends up in prison. Bryan enlists the government to get Sonny out as riots break out. Bryan sends Sonny to the Rocky Mountains (to avoid tidal waves caused by the moon) along with Fowler's son JIMMY and his French au pair MICHELE. Sonny and Michele fall for each other along the way. Sonny and Tom then infiltrate a military base to prevent nukes from destroying the moon, and they get BRENDA and family into a ski lift tunnel as the atmosphere thins in order to save their lives.

[DOUG DAVIDSON]
Supporting Male (40 - 50) Black
The clean-cut, ex-husband of Fowler. He is a military General who also becomes involved in the disaster.

[ERIN FOWLER]
Supporting Female (40 - 45)
NASA Director. Fowler decides to go ahead with the risky mission, flying with Bryan and KC to the moon, where they work to jumpstart the moon's engines and save the world.

[TOM RHODES]
Supporting Male (40 - 49)
Brenda's husband. "White teeth, great smile." He's a weapons contractor who's gotten rich working with the US government. His military connections prove invaluable, however, when he learns that the president plans to launch nukes at the moon, and he and Sonny infiltrate a military base and detonate the nukes before they can destroy the moon.

[BRENDA]
Supporting Female (40 - 49)
Bryan's ex-wife. She and her kids, along with Tom, struggle to stay alive - and Brenda and her kids are okay at the end.

[HUTCHINS]
Supporting Male (60 - 70)
A greying man with a stern face. On a NASA panel, this scientist is seen interviewing Bryan about his incident in space (in the past).

[MICHELLE]
Supporting Female (23) Asian
French au pair to Jimmy, Fowler's son. She and Sonny connect over the course of events and fall for each other.