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Feb 7, 2022 · Roland Emmerich is a filmmaker best known for his visual spectacles in the disaster and sci-fi genres—here is a comprehensive guide to every film he has directed up to Moonfall, ranked from worst to best.
- Jeremy Layton
- Independence Day (1996) Independence Day is the gold standard for disaster movies, with one iconic scene of action after another. Whether it's the image of the UFO's shadow enclosing over New York, or the raging flames that descend through the streets as the aliens execute their attack, there are too many memorable moments to count.
- The Patriot (2000) With The Patriot, Emmerich took a brief hiatus from the disaster genre to film a Revolutionary War epic. Gibson plays a war veteran living in colonial America whose family is torn apart by a brutal British commander, played by Jason Isaacs, against whom he vows to get revenge.
- Stargate (1994) Gifted a budget of $55 million, more than double that of Universal Soldier, Stargate was Emmerich's biggest and most ambitious sci-fi film yet.
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) When you spawn a South Park episode, you have to be doing something right (or horribly wrong). Emmerich does more than a few things right in his 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, which was one of pop culture's first attempts in tackling climate change.
- Fiona Underhill
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) If you're seeking the quintessential natural disaster movie, look no further than Emmerich's mid-2000s triumph. "The Day After Tomorrow" has it all: super-sized hail, tsunamis, tornadoes, and polar vortexes that immediately freeze everything in the vicinity.
- Universal Soldier (1992) The first of many collaborations between Emmerich and writer-producer Dean Devlin was an early 90s movie that featured the biggest action movie stars of the day — Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren.
- White House Down (2013) Coincidentally released in the same year as the similarly-themed "Olympus Has Fallen," Emmerich's take on a president-rescue scenario pipped its rival at the box office, but has been largely forgotten since due to its lack of sequels.
- Anonymous (2011) You'd be forgiven for thinking that both of Emmerich's forays into historical drama movies must be equally bad, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Feb 28, 2020 · Roland Emmerich made his fortune with big-budget sci-fi spectacles, but even those stories seem more interested in how their characters get along and react, than in the visual-effects and ...
Sep 27, 2018 · Few directors are synonymous with blockbusters and end-of-the-world extravaganzas the way Roland Emmerich is. Legend has it that he always wanted to be a production designer, but after watching...
Feb 18, 2020 · There are two sorts of films that Roland Emmerich is fascinated by crafting: tales of historical heroism and big ticket blockbusters. Emmerich’s modern retelling of the battle of Midway...
Oct 26, 2020 · Roland Emmerich announces his new disaster movie Moonfall has begun filming. Emmerich’s reputation as the modern master of disaster movies of course began with the blockbuster success of his alien invasion epic Independence Day, which grossed $817 million worldwide in the summer of 1996.
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