Geostorm is a American science-fiction disaster film directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Dean Devlin in his feature directorial debut. It follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.
Principal photography began on October 20, , in New Orleans , Louisiana. After poor test screenings, reshoots took place in December under executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer , writer Laeta Kalogridis , and new director Danny Cannon. In , following many catastrophic natural disasters , an international coalition commissions "Dutch Boy", a system of climate-controlling satellites.
After it neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai , a US Senate subcommittee reprimands chief architect Jake Lawson, who brought Dutch Boy online without authorization. Three years later, a UN team stationed in the Registan Desert discovers a frozen village. Mahmoud Habib, an Indian engineer working on the International Climate Space Station ICSS , copies data from the satellite responsible for Afghanistan onto a hard drive before being killed in a supposed accident.
After convincing U. In Hong Kong , a satellite severely increases temperatures, causes fire whirls and collapses multiple buildings. Jake arrives at the ICSS to examine the malfunctioning satellites, which were damaged and their data erased.
He works with station commander Ute Fassbinder and her crew, consisting of engineer Eni Adisa, systems specialist Duncan Taylor, technician Al Hernandez, and security officer Ray Dussette. They recover the hard drive but hide it from the crew, suspecting a traitor.
