The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film, directed by J Blakeson, with a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner, based on the novel of the same name by Rick Yancey. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe and Liev Schreiber.

The human race stands on the brink of extinction as a series of alien attacks decimate the planet, causing earthquakes, tsunamis and disease. Separated from her family, Ohio teenager Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz) will do whatever it takes to reunite with her brother Sam. Fate leads her to form an alliance with Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a mysterious young man who may be her last hope. Forced to trust each other, Cassie and Evan fight for survival during the fifth assault from the invaders.

Initial release: January 1, 2016 (Lithuania)

Director: J Blakeson

Adapted from: The 5th Wave

Box office: 110.7 million USD

Producers: Tobey Maguire, Graham King, Matthew Plouffe, Tim Headington

Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Upon entering, she hears a male voice calling for help. While searching the store, she hears a man, who points a gun at her, but they each put their weapons down. His hand is under his jacket and as he takes it out, she sees a glint of metal and kills him. He was holding a crucifix and the screen cuts to black to show her backstory.

At home, the news reports a strange, city-sized hovering structure over their home in Ohio, containing invading extraterrestrials referred to as "The Others". Ten days later The Others cut the power off, causing Cassie's classmates' cars to crash into each other and a plane to fall from the sky. The Second Wave sees The Others drop a large metal rod on to the Earth's fault lines causing massive tsunamis to kill those living in coastal cities. While at a new refuge location, Cassie and her younger brother Sammy go to collect water as the area is struck by earthquakes and floods, and they climb a tree to avoid the flood.

For the Third Wave, The Others weaponize a strain of avian flu using three million birds as carriers of the virus. Cassie then reunites with her mother, Lisa. Cassie's mother warns her to take her brother to safety to avoid the plague. Cassie's mother then dies from the plague and her family create a memorial in their backyard.

In search of a safe community, Cassie leaves home with her father and brother and stumbles upon a refugee camp in the jungle. A few days later, an army unit rolls into the camp and places all of the children on a bus. The commander claims that there is an imminent threat and that they want to take the children to a safe place before coming back for the adults. Cassie gets separated from Sam, and she watches as her father and other survivors are massacred by the army after being told they would never see their children again.

Cassie scavenges her way toward the base to find her brother, but is shot in the leg by an unseen enemy and passes out. Seven days later, Cassie wakes up and meets Evan Walker, who saved her. Cassie learns that he is an Other in humanoid form. She leaves on her own to go find Sam, but not before Evan tells her that Colonel Vosch and the Military are actually Others, and that the Fifth Wave would be human children, tricked into eliminating the remaining survivors.

The only thing that keeps Cassie going is the hope that she can save her brother from the training camp established by the Military at the captured Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Ben Parish and her brother are in the same squad and Ben learns of The Others' plans. Evan tells Cassie and Ben to go find Sam before he blows up the training facility. The Others are in the process of evacuating and deploying the children to other cities. Evan sets off the explosives and destroys the military facility with him. Cassie, Ben, and Sam manage to escape with a little help from squad member Ringer. But most of the Others, including their leader Colonel Vosch, manage to escape too and transport their child soldiers for places elsewhere.

In the final scene, Ben and his squad are enjoying their evening meal with Cassie, who ponder hope as humanity's driving force for survival.

Chloë Grace Moretz as Cassie Sullivan

Nick Robinson as Ben Parish / Zombie

Ron Livingston as Oliver Sullivan

Maggie Siff as Lisa Sullivan

Alex Roe as Evan Walker

Maria Bello as Sergeant Reznik

Maika Monroe as Ringer

Gabriela Lopez as Lizbeth

Zackary Arthur as Sam "Sammy" Sullivan

Liev Schreiber as Colonel Vosch

Tony Revolori as Dumbo

Talitha Bateman as Teacup

Nadji Jeter as Poundcake

Alex MacNicoll as Flintstone

In March 2012, Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights to the trilogy, with Graham King and Tobey Maguire attached as producers. On April 15, 2014, it was officially announced that Chloë Grace Moretz would star as Cassie Sullivan, and that J Blakeson would direct from a script by Susannah Grant. Nick Robinson and Alex Roe joined the film as Ben Parish and Evan Walker, respectively. Liev Schreiber was cast as the villain. On August 11, Maika Monroe was cast as Ringer. The following months, Zackary Arthur, Tony Revolori, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, and Talitha Bateman joined the film.

Principal photography began on October 18, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia.Ninety days after, in Present cards 11, a new organized growing market of an shuttle throughout in town Macon, Georgia to the video gone bad while the idea propagate bigger when compared with organized, wasting out and about over fourty glass windows in Organic cotton Path, collapsing ceilings, ruining keep methodologies, placing one particular making burning down, along with making soot for the components complexes also. Your generation firm stated to hide most injuries a result of your 3: fortyfive are episode, though the operate that's accomplished ended up being accomplished horribly along with is still not whole fifteen a few months after.Filming officially ended on January 17, 2015.

In April 2015, it was announced that Henry Jackman would compose the music for the film.

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