With the profitable venture of the first film, Sony would certainly be interested in taking advantage of the commercial success to produce two more films, thus completing the trilogy. Sony picked up the rights to Rick Yancey’s trilogy of novels to adapt it onto the big screen as a trilogy in early 2012. The film still has a low score of 15% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, there were some positive reviews, with Brian Truitt of USA Today writing that the film “nicely stokes the imagination of a new generation of science-fiction movie nerds” and Shannon Harvey of The West Australian writing “It’s actually got a lot going for it, from acting prodigy Chloe Grace Moretz as the kind of tough but fragile heroine you can cheer for to handsome production values, several plot twists”. In addition, many disparaged the waste of talented actors due to poor vision and filmmaking. Most critics lambasted the film for its derivative plot and narrative and immensely criticized the poor dialogues. While the film was a commercial success, earning a total $109.9 million against a budget of approximately $48 million, ‘The 5th Wave’ could not score many points in the department of the quality of filmmaking.

The movie is co-produced by Columbia Pictures, GK Films, LStar Capital, Living Films and Material Pictures, and premiered on January 22, 2016.

In addition, the film also stars Nick Robinson as Ben Thomas Parish, Alex Roe as Evan Walker, Maria Bello as Sergeant Reznik, Maika Monroe as Ringer and Liev Schreiber as Colonel Alexander Vosch. The film stars the tremendously talented Chloë Grace Moretz as the protagonist Cassie Sullivan, with Ron Livingston essaying the role of the father, Oliver Sullivan, Maggie Siff portraying the character of the mother, Lisa Sullivan, the young Zackary Arthur essaying the role of brother, Sam Sullivan.

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