Moonfall
It’s hard to imagine a director who has taken as much delight in the size and scale of his movies as Roland Emmerich does. Even now, at the age of 66, the German director continues to be attracted by only the biggest of canvasses. His taste for scale has been there since his earliest days. Even on his 1984 feature film debut, Das Arche Noah Prinzip, aka The Noah's Ark Principle, Emmerich managed to make the most expensive student film ever made. He raised 1.2 million German marks (around US$600,000, a lot of money back in 1984) to pull it off. Most of Emmerich's fellow students at the The University of Television and Film Munich scraped together about 20,000 marks for their film, just over 1% of what Emmerich ended up putting on the table. He used the cash to create a sci-fi epic set about a space station whose crew are battling for Earth's very survival. His talent for scale and his uncanny ability to persuade producers to part with large amounts of money have serv...