Actor/comedian Josh Gad has closed a deal to star in Roland Emmerich’s new disaster thriller “Moonfall” at Lionsgate.
Penned by Emmerich, Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, the story begins when the moon is knocked from its orbit by a mysterious force and is on a collision course with Earth.
Life as we know it hangs in the balance and with just weeks to go before impact, a ragtag team is sent on a seemingly impossible mission to land on the lunar surface and save humanity.
Gad plays KC Houseman, a smart but disorganised genius who is profoundly unfiltered and eccentric but also suddenly one of the most important people on Earth.
Emmerich and Harald Kloser are independently producing and financing the project which aims to begin shooting this Fall.
Source: Heat Vision
