Geostorm is a American disaster film directed, co-written, and co-produced 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, re-shoots took place in December under executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer , writer Laeta Kalogridis and new director Danny Cannon.
The film was released by Warner Bros. In , following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions a system of climate-controlling satellites called "Dutch Boy". Three years later, a United Nations team stationed in the Registan Desert comes across a frozen village.
Makmoud 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 he is killed in a supposed accident. In Hong Kong, a satellite severely increases city temperatures and causes firenados and the collapse of several buildings. Jake arrives at ICSS to examine the malfunctioning satellites, which were damaged and their data erased. He works with station commander Ute Fassbinder and her crew, which consists 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, and examine the data, leading to the discovery that a computer virus has been introduced, causing the malfunctions and has wiped out the login access of key senior people to the satellite. Suspecting Palma is using Dutch Boy as a weapon, Jake tells Max he needs to reboot the system to eliminate the virus which requires the kill code held by Palma. The ICSS staff neutralize malfunctioning satellites by deliberately knocking them offline via collisions with replacement satellites.
