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2012
Director: Roland Emmerich
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover ,Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson
Language: English
Country: United States
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2012 is an American science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film has an ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson. The film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver; the film is expected to be released worldwide on November 13, 2009.
Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass.
According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) uses his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser.
A global cataclysm occurs which leads to the end of the world and has survivors struggling for their lives. The film is inspired by several hypotheses that state that the ancient Mayans predicted a doomsday event will occur sometime around the 2012 northern hemisphere winter solstice.
Director Roland Emmerich and composer-producer Harald Kloser co-wrote a spec script titled 2012, which was marketed to major studios in February 2008. Nearly all studios met with Emmerich and his representatives to hear the director’s budget projection and story plans, a process that the director had previously gone through with the films Independence Day (1996) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The film was shopped around with a production budget of $200 million. Later that month, Sony Pictures Entertainment won the rights for the spec script, planning to distribute it under Columbia Pictures. The studio planned to make the film for less than the estimated budget.
Filming was originally scheduled to begin in Los Angeles, California, in July 2008, but instead commenced in Vancouver in August 2008. Due to the possible 2008 Screen Actors Guild strike, filmmakers set up a contingency plan for salvaging the film. Sony Pictures Imageworks was hired to create visual effects for 2012. Thomas Wander co-wrote the score with Harald Kloser.
2012 was originally scheduled to be released on July 10, 2009. The release date was changed to November 13, 2009 to move out of the busy summer schedule into a time frame that the studio considered to have more potential for financial success. According to the studio, the film could have been completed for the summer release date, but the date change will give more time to the production.
Cast:
- John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a science fiction book writer who occasionally works as a limousine driver.
- Amanda Peet as Kate, Jackson’s ex-wife.
- Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson, the First Daughter.
- Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President’s Chief of Staff.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, scientific advisor to the President.
- Danny Glover as President Wilson, the President of the United States.
- Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a man who prophesies the end of the world and is considered crazy by others.
- Alex Jones claimed in an interview with Eric “Mancow” Muller that Harrelson told him that Frost’s character was based on him. Harrelson compared his character to the mythological Greek figure Cassandra, whose predictions were dismissed.
- Ng Chin Han as Lin Pang, a worker in Tibet.
- Thomas McCarthy as Gordon, Kate’s current boyfriend and a plastic surgeon.
- Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s son.
- Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s daughter.
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