The tide is turning
Partially filmed in Dubai, ‘Geostorm’s lead star, Jim Sturgess, talks to tabloid! about climate change and saving the world from disaster with Hollywood action hero Gerard Butler
It was cool seeing a disaster movie for the very first time and I was in it,” comes the earnest response from Hollywood’s breakthrough indie star Jim Sturgess.
While he earned his credentials with tear-jerkers such as Across the Universe, The Way Back and One Day, Sturgess’ entry into the big leagues couldn’t be more far removed from the genre.
The movie in question is Geostorm, the season’s latest CGI thrill-ride that rains on our parade with a doomsday scenario, blowing in tornadoes, freak snowstorms and a thunderous Tsunami that all but annihilates Dubai’s glittering skyline.
Stopping short of hurling Burj Khalifa into a watery grave, Geostorm’s largerthan-life special effects also paint a stark reality of the delicate nature of this planet that is waging its own battle to stay afloat following the drastic effects of climate change.
In the premise of this film, Earth’s inevitable future forces mankind to manually control global weather patterns with the help of a little thing called geo-engineering and a whole lot of leeway given to Geostorm’s writers, Dean Devlin (who has also directed the movie) and Paul Guyot.
Sturgess says he took on his new project as a learning experience. “It is always very exciting when a big piece of entertainment like this can have a strong and deeper message that will run underneath it. It can reach so many people and connect with their consciousness.”