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5.916-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Cast
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Cassiopeia "Cassie" Sullivan
- Nick Robinson as Ben "Zombie" Parish
- Ron Livingston as Oliver Sullivan
- Maggie Siff as Lisa Sullivan
- Alex Roe as Evan Walker
- Maria Bello as Sergeant Reznik
Themes
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- alien
- alien invasion
- human subjugation
- environmental disaster
- based on young adult novel
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Key facts
- Directed by
- J Blakeson
- Screenplay by
- Susannah Grant Akiva Goldsman Jeff Pinkner
- Based on
- The 5th Wave , by Rick Yancey
- Produced by
- Tobey Maguire Graham King Matthew Plouffe Lynn Harris
- Starring
- Chloë Grace Moretz Nick Robinson Ron Livingston Maggie Siff Alex Roe Maria Bello Maika Monroe Liev Schreiber
- Cinematography
- Enrique Chediak
- Edited by
- Paul Rubell
- Music by
- Henry Jackman
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures LStar Capital GK Films Material Pictures Living Films
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release date
- January 22, 2016 ( 2016-01-22 )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $38–54 million
- Box office
- $109.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction action film directed by J Blakeson from a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner, based on Rick Yancey's 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, and Liev Schreiber.
Development 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. Filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 2014 to January 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The 5th Wave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.