Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
2012
8/14/08 - Sony Pictures Imageworks has been awarded a substantial amount of visual-effects work on Roland Emmerich's upcoming apocalyptic movie 2012, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The SF thriller recently started production in Vancouver, Canada, and will include a large number of visual effects. A July 10, 2009, release is planned. The production has a contingency plan in case of an actor’s walkout or strike.
7/10/08 - Singaporean actor Chin Han will next star in Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic movie 2012. Han joins an ensemble cast that includes John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Danny Glover. The movie, co-written and to be produced and directed by Emmerich for Centropolis Entertainment and Columbia Studios, begins shooting in Vancouver in August.
06/02/08 - Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt are in discussions to join 2012, Columbia's epic disaster project, which Roland Emmerich is directing. 2012 centers on a global cataclysm and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors. Glover is in talks to play the president, with Newton in discussions to play his daughter. Platt is in negotiations to play the president's chief of staff. John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor already are on board. The studio is planning a July 10, 2009 release.
05/20/08 - John Cusack is eyeing 2012, a big-budget SF disaster film, as his next project. The disaster film centers on a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors. Cusack may play divorced dad, writer and sometime limo driver Jackson Curtis, who goes on a heroic journey to save his family. Ejiofor plays Adrian Helmsley, an idealistic science adviser to the president, who also becomes a hero. The studio is planning a July 10, 2009 release.
12/31/06 - Michael Bay will direct this film with writing/producing partners Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci adapting Whitley Strieber's upcoming book for Warner Brothers. The story follows an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to stop an apocalypse foreseen by the ancient Mayans.
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