Evan admits his humanity was reactivated when he saw her, disagrees with the invasion and lets her leave. The sleepers roam their designated zones, killing human survivors. Cassie leaves towards the base with Evan, but learns that he is an Other, sent years ago as a sleeper agent and merged his consciousness into a human host. About a week later, she wakes up in the farmhouse of a young man named Evan Walker, who saved her. Cassie makes her way toward the base, but is shot in the leg by a sniper and passes out. Cassie is separated from Sam, and witnesses the Army massacring all the adults, her father included. The unit's commander, Colonel Vosch, claims there is an imminent threat of a 5th Wave and they will take the children to safety at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, intending to bring the buses back to retrieve the adults. A few days later, an Army unit with working vehicles rolls into the camp. In the 4th wave, the Others possess common humans and start killing other humans.Ĭassie, Sam and their father find a summer camp in use as a refuge in the woods with roughly 300 survivors. 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.
His other hand is under his jacket-and as he takes it out, she sees a glint of metal and kills him, thinking he was holding a gun, but he was in fact holding a Christian cross the screen cuts to black to show her backstory.Ī colossal alien spaceship is circling Earth, guided by extraterrestrial life referred to as "The Others". She finds a wounded man, who points a gun at her, but they ask each other to put their respective weapons down. Upon entering, she hears a male voice calling for help. Ohio high-schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station.
It grossed $109 million worldwide against a $54 million budget, and received generally unfavorable reviews from critics for the CGI, storyline, and screenplay, though there was some praise for the acting. The 5th Wave was released on January 22, 2016, in the United States by Columbia Pictures. 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 Sony 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.