Dean Devlin, who wrote Independence Day, is channeling his inner Emmerich with Geostorm, a disaster film that looks like all the best parts of “Sim City” merged with an actual story.
In the film, Gerard Butler stars as a man who heads into space to prevent climate-controlling satellites from creating a storm of epic proportions, while his brother discovers a plot to assassinate the president (Andy Garcia).
Warner Bros. has staged a ridiculously complex prank that takes taxi riders (what’s a taxi, you ask?) from their summer paradise into a cold and dark winter wonderland. It reminds me of the old-school Universal Studios tour where they’d pull you into various films – like King Kong and Jaws – as well as several natural disasters.
The Geostorm arrives this Friday, October 20th.