Director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich earned the nickname ‘master of disaster’ for bringing us notable sci-fi epics including Stargate and Independence Day. But he says his focus is really on ordinary people asked to do extraordinary things. In his newest movie, Moonfall, two Nasa astronauts and a conspiracy theorist have to save humanity after something knocks the moon out of orbit. Yep, that’s pretty extraordinary.

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