With Roland Emmerich’s new disaster film “Moonfall” hitting cinemas this week, the German filmmaker is out on the promotional rounds to talk up the sci-fi tale.
Emmerich’s film, though within his genre wheelhouse, is one of the few big-scale event films out this year not based on an existing property. Asked by Den of Geek about the current state of cinema and blockbuster films and the disaster genre he says:
“Because naturally, Marvel and DC Comics, and ‘Star Wars,’ have pretty much taken over. It’s ruining our industry a little bit because nobody does anything original anymore.
You should make bold new movies. And I think Christopher Nolan is the master of that. He is someone who can make movies about whatever he wants. I have it a little bit harder, but I still have a big enough name – especially when it’s a disaster [movie] or has some sort of disaster theme.”
Emmerich added he’s not terribly interested in making movies within the superhero genre:
“There were [‘The Adventures of Tintin’ comics], but they were very childish, and there were no superheroes. So that’s why at the very beginning, superheroes didn’t work in Germany. They needed 10 or 15 years [of movies] to get to the same level as the rest of the world…. But I just have never found any interest in that kind of movie.”
“Moonfall,” starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson, opens this Friday.
