After making movies like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012, director Roland Emmerich made a name for himself that’s practically synonymous with the disaster movie. His classic films featured massive casts and bigger spectacles with visual calling cards that gave the movies an immediate weight. The image of the Statue of Liberty buried in an ice storm for The Day After Tomorrow was even the film’s poster. If the disaster movie genre is an excuse to put movie stars through horrific but still imaginable (if unbelievable) scenarios, Emmerich mastered it. While his career has explored other avenues over the years, he could still meet the gigantic scale that viewers could find in those films. But even the modern master of disaster movies may have lost some of his touch, as evidenced by his 2022 box office bomb,Moonfall grossed less than $70 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
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