With a slew of genre favourites in his back pocket, we now have word on what’s next for director Roland Emmerich.

Via The Hollywood Reporter, Emmerich is heading to the stars for his next movie. Titled Moonfall, the sci-fi offering will see a strange force knock the Moon from its orbit and put it on a collision course for Earth. From there, it’s down to a ragtag team to head to the Moon in a desperate attempt to figure out the mystery behind this event and save the very existence of our planet.

Emmerich is co-writing the picture with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen, with the director’s Centropolis Entertainment producing the film. The current plan is for AGC to shop the film around at Cannes, with a budget of $150 million having been mentioned.

Emmerich is likely best known to genre fans for directing offerings such as Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and White House Down. So yes, this is clearly someone with a penchant for over-the-top disaster spectacles, which means you can likely expect the same sort of explosive action for Moonfall.

At present, the plan is for Moonfall to begin production early next year.