Could Moonfall Actually Happen?

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WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Moonfall

Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall plays to the director’s strengths as a science fiction disaster movie, although it is questionable whether the events in Moonfall could actually happen. Emmerich is no stranger to creating exciting yet unlikely scenarios, having directed Independence Day,The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012. Moonfall follows these films’ precedent of enhancing realistic cataclysms to the point of enthralling impossibilities.

In Moonfall's cast of characters, conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman, played by John Bradley, uncovers that the Earth’s moon is artificial and on a crash course with the Earth. During the natural disasters caused by the approaching moon, Houseman accompanies two astronauts, played by Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson, as they journey to correct the moon’s trajectory. Unfortunately for them, a mysterious, swarm-like being inhabits the moon, thwarting their attempts to save both the moon and the Earth.

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While a thrilling, wild sci-fi adventure, Moonfall leans into its fiction and plays loosely with its science. The creative team consulted with scientists to realistically enhance the theoretical situations of Moonfall, but some aspects of the movie are highly unlikely while others are impossible. All of this adds into Moonfall’s schlocky premise, however, both placating audiences with enough realism to warrant suspension of disbelief for some of its more outlandish aspects. From the Moon’s effects on the Earth to the movie’s futuristic technology, here are reasons the science fiction movie Moonfall may or may not be able to actually happen.

Moonfall portrays the effect of the Moon