GEOSTORM

Title : Geostorm

Language : English

Release Date : October 20, 2017 (United States)

Directed By : Dean Devlin

Distributed By : Warner Bros. Pictures

Geostorm is an American disaster science-fiction action film co-written, co-produced and directed by Dean Devlin as his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, Richard Schiff, Robert Sheehan, Daniel Wu, Eugenio Derbez, Ed Harris and Andy García. The plot follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

Principal photography began on October 20, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. After poor test screenings, re-shoots took place in December 2016 under executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, writer Laeta Kalogridis and director Danny Cannon. The film is the first co-production between Skydance Media and Warner Bros. Pictures. The film will be released by Warner Bros. in the United States on October 20, 2017 in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D.

Plot

In 2019, after several natural disasters of epic proportions hit Earth, including a heat wave in Barcelona where two million people died, and the engulfment of Lower Manhattan by the rising waters, 19 nations have banded together and commissioned a sort of natural disaster defense system nicknamed "Dutch Boy", a series of satellites surrounding Earth centered around the International Climate Space Station. Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) is the architect behind it all, commanding a multifarious crew on board the station, until, after a Senate sub-committee hearing where he is tasked with defending his past actions vis-a-vis Dutch Boy, goes postal and verbally attacks Virginia senator Thomas Cross (Richard Schiff), head of the sub-committee, after Cross insinuates less-than-diplomatic notions about his conduct (including an instance where, in an attempt to prevent the man from touching a short-circuting electrical system, Lawson punched a federal inspector sent up by the sub-committee). He is replaced by his relatively calmer brother, Max Lawson (Jim Sturgess).

Three years later, a United Nations field team is riding through Afghanistan when they are confronted with an unnerving sight: an entire village frozen, along with its inhabitants. U.S. President Andrew Palma (Andy García) calls an emergency meeting of his Cabinet (including Max, who now works for the State Department under Secretary Leonard Dekkom (Ed Harris)) where it is revealed that an alleged malfunction in the satellite responsible for maintaining Afghanistan's weather caused the freak freezing. President Palma wants it all covered up to prevent the nations involved in the project from brewing up a political storm, as the United States is slated to hand over authority over the Space Station to the international community in two weeks' time. Max protests in the strongest possible terms and reminds Palma that they must take responsibility and fix the problems with Dutch Boy. The President consents to sending one man up to the station; Max's brother Jake, who was the project's original lead until he was unceremoniously dumped three years ago.

Max approaches Jake at his house in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where he has lived for the past three years, intermittently accompanied by his daughter Hannah (who has been under shared custody with Jake's ex-wife after the sub-committee fiasco, that also cost him his home and marriage), to persuade him to go back up into the stars. Jake is at first cold and unresponsive to his brother's advances, citing his high-and-mighty attitude and that of the people who fired him; However, after Max appeals to Jake's passion for his work, he agrees. Meanwhile, an intense increase of heat in Hong Kong results is a massive gas leak, destroying the city and nearly killed Cheung, Max's friend.