We talk to Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Travers about the physics he used to make the moon crash into Earth
"Moonfall" marks the second time Travers has worked with the so-called master of disaster, Roland Emmerich, the first being his World War II blockbuster"Midway" that tells the story, in a surprising amount of accuracy, of the battle that effectively turned the tables on military supremacy in the Pacific in June 1942.
"Roland? Oh yeah, he is so much fun to work with. He's, so great, because he's so clear in his vision of what he wants. "We rolled right into 'Moonfall' even before 'Midway' was done. So, the big question was how could we get the moon to actually fall. Even if the moon was to touch the Earth, there was a point early on, when we realized that the Earth and the Moon were not going to exhibit too many gravity effects on the Earth. Even if the moon and the Earth were touching with our current assumptions of the moon, and its density, because the moon is 1/100 of the mass of the Earth.
"So very early on, we had to figure out a way to do that — and there's only really two ways that you can do that. The first is to give the moon a tremendous amount of energy, but the real one — the better one — is to inject it with a ton of mass. And so that solved two problems that would get the moon to fall ...
"Moonfall" arrives in theaters across the U.S. on Feb. 4, 2022 and look out for more from our interview with Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Travers.
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