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Deep Impact (film)
Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998. The film depicts humanity's attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate. Deep Impact was slightly better received critically than Armageddon, although both ultimately received mixed reviews. Deep Impact grossed over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1998.
It was the final film by cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann, who died before the film's release.
On May 10, 1998, in Richmond, Virginia, high school student Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object in the night sky at his astronomy club's star party. His picture is sent to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on a collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car crash while racing to raise the alarm.
A year later, MSNBC journalist Jenny Lerner investigates Secretary of the Treasury Alan Rittenhouse over his connection with "Ellie", whom she assumes to be a mistress; she and her cameraman Eric are confused when they find Rittenhouse and his daughter Lilly loading a boat with large amounts of food and other survival gear. Lerner is apprehended by the FBI and taken to meet United States President Tom Beck, who persuades her not to share the story in return for a prominent role in the press conference he will arrange. She subsequently discovers that "Ellie" is actually an acronym—E.L.E.—which stands for "extinction-level event". Two days later, Beck announces that the comet Wolf–Biederman is on course to impact the Earth in roughly one year and could cause humanity's extinction. He reveals that the United States and Russia have been constructing the Messiah in orbit, a spacecraft to transport a team to alter the comet's path with nuclear bombs.
The Messiah launches a short time later with a crew of five American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut. They land on the comet's outer-most layer and drill the nuclear bombs deep beneath its surface, but the comet shifts into the sunlight. Consequently, Mission Commander Oren is blinded and an explosive release of gas propels medical officer Gus into space. Now led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner, the remaining crew escape and detonate the bombs. However, rather than deflect the comet, the bombs split it in two. Beck announces the mission's failure in a television address, and that both pieces—the larger now named Wolf and the smaller named Biederman—are still headed for Earth. Wolf is on a collision course with western Canada, and its impact is expected to fill the atmosphere with dust, blocking all sunlight for two years and creating an impact winter that will kill all life on the planet's surface.
Martial law is imposed and a lottery selects 800,000 Americans to join 200,000 pre-selected individuals in underground shelters in Missouri's limestone bluffs. Lerner is pre-selected, as are the Biedermans as gratitude for Leo discovering the comet, though his girlfriend Sarah and her family are not selected. Lerner's mother Robin, upon learning most senior citizens are ineligible for the lottery, commits suicide. Leo marries Sarah in a vain attempt; while this saves her, the Hotchners are still not selected and she refuses to go without them. A last-ditch effort to deflect the comets with ICBMs fails. Upon arrival at the shelter, Leo decides to return to Virginia to find Sarah. He reaches the Hotchners on the freeway and takes Sarah and her baby brother to higher ground while Vicky and Chuck remain. Lerner gives up her seat on an evacuation helicopter to co-worker Beth and her daughter, and instead travels to her childhood beach home where she reconciles with her father Jason.
Biederman hits the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and creates a megatsunami that destroys several countries and much of the East Coast of the United States, reaching the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys plus Europe and Africa. Millions including Lerner, Jason, Vicky and Chuck perish. Leo, Sarah, her brother and other survivors make it to safety in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The Messiah crew, now dangerously low on life-support and remaining propellant fuel, decide to sacrifice themselves by flying deep inside Wolf and detonating their remaining nuclear bombs. They allow Spurgeon, whose sons are on active duty, pilot Andrea, navigator Mark, and Oren to say goodbye to their loved ones before executing their plan. Wolf is blown into a million pieces which burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere and lights up the sky for an hour, averting further catastrophe.
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Deep Impact (film)
Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998. The film depicts humanity's attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate. Deep Impact was slightly better received critically than Armageddon, although both ultimately received mixed reviews. Deep Impact grossed over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1998.
It was the final film by cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann, who died before the film's release.
On May 10, 1998, in Richmond, Virginia, high school student Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object in the night sky at his astronomy club's star party. His picture is sent to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on a collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car crash while racing to raise the alarm.
A year later, MSNBC journalist Jenny Lerner investigates Secretary of the Treasury Alan Rittenhouse over his connection with "Ellie", whom she assumes to be a mistress; she and her cameraman Eric are confused when they find Rittenhouse and his daughter Lilly loading a boat with large amounts of food and other survival gear. Lerner is apprehended by the FBI and taken to meet United States President Tom Beck, who persuades her not to share the story in return for a prominent role in the press conference he will arrange. She subsequently discovers that "Ellie" is actually an acronym—E.L.E.—which stands for "extinction-level event". Two days later, Beck announces that the comet Wolf–Biederman is on course to impact the Earth in roughly one year and could cause humanity's extinction. He reveals that the United States and Russia have been constructing the Messiah in orbit, a spacecraft to transport a team to alter the comet's path with nuclear bombs.
The Messiah launches a short time later with a crew of five American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut. They land on the comet's outer-most layer and drill the nuclear bombs deep beneath its surface, but the comet shifts into the sunlight. Consequently, Mission Commander Oren is blinded and an explosive release of gas propels medical officer Gus into space. Now led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner, the remaining crew escape and detonate the bombs. However, rather than deflect the comet, the bombs split it in two. Beck announces the mission's failure in a television address, and that both pieces—the larger now named Wolf and the smaller named Biederman—are still headed for Earth. Wolf is on a collision course with western Canada, and its impact is expected to fill the atmosphere with dust, blocking all sunlight for two years and creating an impact winter that will kill all life on the planet's surface.
Martial law is imposed and a lottery selects 800,000 Americans to join 200,000 pre-selected individuals in underground shelters in Missouri's limestone bluffs. Lerner is pre-selected, as are the Biedermans as gratitude for Leo discovering the comet, though his girlfriend Sarah and her family are not selected. Lerner's mother Robin, upon learning most senior citizens are ineligible for the lottery, commits suicide. Leo marries Sarah in a vain attempt; while this saves her, the Hotchners are still not selected and she refuses to go without them. A last-ditch effort to deflect the comets with ICBMs fails. Upon arrival at the shelter, Leo decides to return to Virginia to find Sarah. He reaches the Hotchners on the freeway and takes Sarah and her baby brother to higher ground while Vicky and Chuck remain. Lerner gives up her seat on an evacuation helicopter to co-worker Beth and her daughter, and instead travels to her childhood beach home where she reconciles with her father Jason.
Biederman hits the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and creates a megatsunami that destroys several countries and much of the East Coast of the United States, reaching the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys plus Europe and Africa. Millions including Lerner, Jason, Vicky and Chuck perish. Leo, Sarah, her brother and other survivors make it to safety in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The Messiah crew, now dangerously low on life-support and remaining propellant fuel, decide to sacrifice themselves by flying deep inside Wolf and detonating their remaining nuclear bombs. They allow Spurgeon, whose sons are on active duty, pilot Andrea, navigator Mark, and Oren to say goodbye to their loved ones before executing their plan. Wolf is blown into a million pieces which burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere and lights up the sky for an hour, averting further catastrophe.