Moon 44

Moon 44 (1990)

In the outer zone... you need a friend

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.

Date of release
1990-02-15
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (159)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Roland Emmerich

Casting

Interesting facts

Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language West German science fiction action film directed, produced, and co-written by Roland Emmerich. It stars Michael Paré, Lisa Eichhorn, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Thompson, and Dean Devlin.

Production

Filming took place primarily in the Swabian town of Sindelfingen using old factory buildings as shooting locations. Production took place over the course of ten weeks from December 1988 through February 1989 primarily using a warehouse that belonged to director Roland Emmerich's father that was used for his furniture business.

Additional filming took place at the Ennis House in Los Angeles, California, as the Galactic Mining corporate office. Emmerich secured financing on the film by selling distribution rights to foreign territories. The film was shot by cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub and scored by composer Joel Goldsmith. It was filmed in color with Dolby Stereo sound. Moon 44 is the first collaboration between Devlin and Emmerich.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended