UB Preview: Halle Berry Talks ‘Moonfall’ | In Theaters Friday

Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry continues to break down barriers acting in a multitude of critically acclaimed, diverse roles and most recently added the title of director to her already impressive filmography.

In her new film “Moonfall” opening this Friday February 4th from Lionsgate, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit and hurls it on a collision course with Earth – and with life as we know it.

With only weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jocinda ‘Jo’ Fowler played by Halle Berry, has an idea that can save our planet. But only a man from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and lovable conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley) believes her. These unlikely heroes mount an impossible final mission into space, leaving behind, perhaps forever, their loved ones – and discover an incredible secret about Earth’s only “natural” satellite.

In the early 1960s, U.S. president John F. Kennedy implored Americans to go to the Moon, not because it was easy, but because it was hard. His hopes and dreams for this impossible task became reality in 1969, with the Apollo 11 lunar mission – a true “giant leap for mankind.” But, posits Moonfall, that world-changing event hid a secret that would, in 2022, see the Moon come to us.

Humanity faces the true and absolute dark side of the Moon, as entire cities are evacuated, moving to higher ground offers the only chance of survival, and civil unrest is pervasive and destructive in once unimaginable ways. It’s Earth’s sixth extinction-level event.

Moonfall director Roland Emmerich is a master of cinema spectacle, encompassing science fiction blockbusters, like Independence Day, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow, as well as historical epics, including The Patriot and Midway.

Check out our UB Preview + Halle Berry talks about the new film and the importance of seeing this role being played by a black woman and more!

“The Moon Rang Like A Bell” – The Hollow Moon hypothesis proposes that Earth’s Moon is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space, however no scientificevidence exists to support the idea. Seismic observations and other data collected since spacecrafts began to orbit or land on the Moon indicate that it has a thin crust, extensive mantle and small, dense core, although overall it is much less dense than planet Earth.

Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts placed seismometers as part of their missions at their landing sites around the Moon. Those seismometers recorded moonquakes, and the Moon was described as “ringing like a bell” during some of those quakes. The phrase was brought to popular attention, when Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon‘s surface. NASA reported that the Moon rang like a bell for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell. Lunar seismology experiments since then have shown that the lunar body has shallow moonquakes that act differently from quakes on Earth, due to differences in texture, type and density of the planetary strata, but there is no scientific evidence of any large empty space inside the body. The Apollo 12, 14, 15, and 16 instruments faithfully radioed data back to Earth until they were switched off in 1977.

In “Moonfall,” Holdenfield (Donald Sutherland) makes the following reference, explaining to Jo Fowler: “July 20th, 1969– Apollo 11. One giant leap– yadayada. The world was watching history being made. Right? Wrong. The world only saw what the powers that be wanted them to see. You learned as ‘an historical fact’ that Apollo 11 ‘lost contact’ with mission control for two whole minutes. Yes? Not true. They didn’t lose contact. Mission Control cut the feed to the world. Our guys were reporting strange lights pulsing out from under the Moon’s crust and Control was told to pull the plug, told that the public mustn’t know about that. So we signed NDAs and they hid it. In STS 136A. All the Apollo missions after that ran tests that pointed to only one possible conclusion– The Moon is a hollow object.”