Moonfall: The Hollow Moon Conspiracy - Explained
Warning: Spoilers For Moonfall Below
Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie Moonfall is based on conspiracy theories that the moon isn't what it appears to be, but tweaks these seemingly wild theories a bit for the sake of the story. Emmerich is the famed king of disaster movies, first achieving that recognition with his 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Emmerich would later follow up with other disaster films, including Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Independence Day: Resurgence.
With Emmerich's disaster movie pedigree involving invading aliens, giant monsters, climate change, and Mayan apocalyptic prophecies, Moonfall shifts into a new kind of disaster for him. What happens in Moonfall is the gravitational effects of the moon upon Earth begin to intensify. The moon also draws closer and closer to Earth as it begins raining chunks of itself onto the planet. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley) posits that the moon is actually a massive lunar superstructure orbiting Earth. Astronauts Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) and Brain Harper (Patrick Wilson), who encountered a bizarre A.I. presence in a Space Shuttle mission years prior, accompany K.C. on a voyage to stop the moon's collapse and save the Earth.
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K.C.'s proposal is based upon an actual conspiracy theory known as the Hollow Moon theory. In Moonfall, Roland Emmerich holds true to the general essence of the Hollow Moon conspiracy and what it proposes the moon actually is. However, for the purposes of storytelling, he also adds in some additional mythos of his own making to serve the story told by Moonfall. Here's what the Hollow Moon conspiracy is, how Moonfall uses it, and how the movie adapts it to tell its particular disaster
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