Yahoo News The new trailer for Geostorm is brilliantly ridiculous
Move over Roland Emmerich, there's a new disaster movie in town. And this one's going to be even more disastery than ever.
Geostorm is the new humongous epic from first-time director Dean Devlin, who produced and wrote Independence Day, Stargate and Godzilla (the 1998 one). So he's no stranger to spectacle.
Here it looks like he's taken the 'oh f**k it, let's just do everything' approach, as we see Gerard Butler play a scientist (yes. Gerard Butler plays a scientist. What?) who has to go up to space to fix a satellite which is causing all the natural disasters to happen at once on Earth. So that's tornados, ice storms, tidal waves and anything else you can think of. Then it turns out it is probably a conspiracy. And then Jim Sturgess and Abbie Cornish have to kidnap the President.
Here's the official synopsis:
"After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe.
"But now, something has gone wrong - the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything... and everyone along with it."
We LOVE a good disaster movie. And sometimes we love a not-so-good disaster movie too. At the very least this looks like it'll be a heap of fun. And even better, unlike 2012, which stretched to an exhausting 158 mins, Geostorm runs to a whirlwind 109 mins.
Geostorm opens in UK cinemas on October 20.
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