Roland Emmerich Goes Deep on Moonfall, Why He Didn’t Want to do Godzilla, and His Long Career

If you’re a fan of Roland Emmerich and would love to hear him talk about his career, you’re about to be very happy. That’s because last week, after a long break due to COVID, the Collider/IMAX screening relaunched in Los Angeles with Emmerich’s newest movie, Moonfall — and after the screening ended, he participated in an extended Q&A. During the 45-minute conversation, Emmerich shared some great behind-the-scenes stories about making Moonfall, how they pulled off the complicated VFX on their budget, and why he wanted to cast John Bradley. He also spoke about what they had to go through to get Donald Sutherland to agree to be in the movie, why people love watching end of the world movies, being surprised NASA wanted to be involved, and tons of other cool behind-the-scenes stories that directors rarely share. But for me, the best parts of the Q&A were hearing Emmerich talk about how he got into directing, what it was like having his first and only film in German get into the Berlin Film Fe