10 Insane Movie Moments You Couldn't Believe Directors Actually Went There

1. Moonfall's Insane Twist

Moonfall Twist
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Roland Emmerich is never one to hold back when it comes to his movies. For Emmerich, so often bigger and louder has been his way of approach. After all, this is the director behind the likes of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 1998's god-awful take on Godzilla.

More recently, the German director brought sci-fi disaster flick Moonfall to the silver screen. And in typical Roland Emmerich fashion, there's a revelation in the movie that caused audience's collective jaws to drop.

How did the filmmaker baffle us this time out? Why, he'd reveal that the Moon is not real. Even by Roland's standards, this is pretty out there.

In a screenplay Emmerich put together with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, Moonfall explains how the Moon as we know it is a creation of mankind's ancestors. Designed billions of years ago, the 'Moon' was meant to be an ark-like vessel intended to repopulate the dwindling numbers of mankind. Not just this, but the Moon has been corrupted by a rogue AI, which has now set the faux Moon out of orbit and onto a collision course with Earth.

Given how Moonfall only hit cinemas a matter of weeks ago, there's obviously no footage of the film's nuts revelation available online just yet. If you've not seen this latest Emmerich offering as of yet, trust us when we say the movie is as bonkers as it sounds.

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