“Moonfall” Trailer Musings

So, there is a movie coming out next February called Moonfall. Directed by Roland Emmerich, here’s the synopsis:

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.

We have thoughts.

First: it took 3 days for the Apollo missions to reach the moon. In Moonfall, we now have the moon “hurtling” toward Earth, with “mere weeks” before it collides. Look, if some actual rocket scientist out there wants to do the math for everyone, that would be great, but otherwise, I’m not buying 4-5 times slower than the Apollo missions being classified as “hurtling.” I mean, the gravitational acceleration alone due to the mass of the moon vs the mass of an Apollo capsule…

Anyway.

Second: if the one person who knows how to save us can only be believed by a conspiracy theorist…? Come on, man. Nobody else thought of whatever it is that can save us? No one?

Third: can we assume that everyone in whatever time-frame this film occurs has the ability to launch “an impossible last-ditch mission into space” when nobody believes them?!

Finally: “our Moon is not what we think it is?” So… maybe this?

Watch the teaser trailer below and see what you think.

MOONFALL Trailer (2022) – YouTube