ON BOARD WITH Roland Emmerich
With a passion for superyachts and a CV that lists some of the loudest, shiniest Hollywood blockbusters of the 1990s and 2000s, it must have crossed the mind of German director Roland Emmerich to make a superyacht-inspired flick? Well, sort of.
“I’m always inspired by what’s in bookstores, and [about 25 years ago] I saw books about the Titanic everywhere – I said, ‘Oh my God, that would be a great subject matter.’ Then I talked to a couple of people and they said James Cameron is already doing one. I was a year too late.”
He may have missed his chance to tell the most famous nautical story of the modern age, but he’s still racked up some of the most successfill disaster movies ever and name but a few. He’s currently deep in post-production on after shooting in Montreal with Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Donald Sutherland and Michael Pena. Due for release in 2022, it’s a film that does what it says on the tin: “It’s about the Moon falling to Earth – but the Moon is not what we think it is,” he says.
