Movies based on YA tomes are still hot properties when it comes to movie fodder and** The 5th Wave **blends that with an alien invasion drama. While that combination doesn’t always work – see 2013's The Host, based on Stephanie Meyer’s book – the team behind The 5th Wave will be hoping for better luck. Check out the first trailer below.
Chloe Grace Moretz is starring as Cassie Sullivan, a young woman who survives the four waves of deadly extra-terrestrial attacks from creatures known as “The Others” against the Earth’s population that have left our planet a darkened, doomed place where its new conquerors roam in near-human form, picking off survivors. First they came for our power, then they wiped out major cities. Next was a viral attack that sickened a vast swathe of Earth’s population, followed by the fourth incursion, aimed at wiping out survivors. The fifth is on its way, though no one is quite sure what that will entail? A Twitter outage causing madness and death? Instagram users forced to go back to square images? The mind reels.
In the wake of this destruction, Cassie, who still hopes to rescue her younger brother, prefers to travel alone, figuring she’ll be safer that way. But then she meets Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a mysterious young man who could be her big hope. But can she trust him?
With Liev Schreiber, Ron Livingston, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe and Terry Serpico in the cast, this one was directed by The Disappearance Of Alice Creed’s J Blakeson, and adapted by Susannah Grant from Rick Yancy’s novel. It should hit cinemas in January.