The population is decimated, with Cassie's mother one of the victims. For the 3rd Wave, The Others modify a strain of avian influenza and spread it across the planet via birds. In Ohio, Lake Erie floods, but Cassie and her younger brother Sam are able to escape by climbing a tree. The 2nd Wave has The Others manipulate the planet's geology and fault lines, causing earthquakes and megatsunamis that destroy coastal cities and islands, including Hallandale Beach, London, Bangkok and New York City. Ten days later, The Others unleash their 1st Wave, an electromagnetic pulse that disables all electrical power and communications worldwide, and shuts off the engines of moving vehicles, including planes in mid-flight. When he pulls his other hand out from under his jacket, she mistakes the metallic glint of a Christian cross for that of a gun, so she kills him: the screen then cuts to black, and her backstory begins.Ī colossal alien spaceship is circling Earth, guided by extraterrestrial life referred to as 'The Others'. She finds a wounded man, he points a gun at her, then each of the two asks the other to put one’s own weapon down. Upon entering, she hears a voice calling for help. Ohio high-schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Despite negative reviews from critics, the film was moderately successful, grossing $109.9 million worldwide against a $38–54 million budget. The 5th Wave was released on January 22, 2016, in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 2014 to January 2015.

The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, and Liev Schreiber.ĭevelopment began in March 2012, when Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights to the trilogy of novels, with Graham King's production company GK Films and Tobey Maguire's Material Pictures. The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction action film directed by J Blakeson, with a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner, based on Rick Yancey’s 2013 novel of the same name.

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