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2012 was directed by Roland Emmerich |
2012 was written by Harald Kloser |
2012 was written by Roland Emmerich |
2012 was produced by Harald Kloser |
2012 was produced by Mark Gordon |
2012 was produced by Larry J. Franco |
2012 stars John Cusack |
2012 stars Chiwetel Ejiofor |
2012 stars Amanda Peet |
2012 stars Oliver Platt |
2012 stars Thandiwe Newton [a] |
2012 stars Danny Glover |
2012 stars Woody Harrelson |
2012 has cinematography by Dean Semler |
2012 was edited by David Brenner |
2012 was edited by Peter Elliott |
2012 has music by Harald Kloser |
2012 has music by Thomas Wander |
2012 was produced by Columbia Pictures |
2012 was produced by Centropolis Entertainment |
2012 was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing |
2012 was release date November 13, 2009 ( 2009-11-13 ) (United States) |
2012 runs for 158 minutes |
2012 is from United States |
2012 is in English |
2012 had a budget of $200 million |
2012 made $791.2 million |
2012 is a 2009 American science fiction apocalyptic disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It was produced by Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, and Larry J. Franco, and written by Kloser and Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandiwe Newton (credited as Thandie Newton), Da... |
Filming, originally planned for Los Angeles, began in Vancouver in early August 2008 and wrapped up in mid-October 2008. After a lengthy advertising campaign which included the creation of a website from its main characters' point of view and a viral marketing website on which filmgoers could register for a lottery num... |
In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in India and learns that an exotic new type of neutrinos from a huge solar flare are heating the Earth's core. In Washington, Helmsley informs White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who brings him to meet President Thomas Wilson. |
In 2010, Wilson and other world leaders begin building nine arks, each capable of carrying 100,000 people, in the Himalayas in Tibet. Nima, a Buddhist monk, is evacuated, and his brother Tenzin joins the ark project. Tickets are secretly sold to the rich for €1 billion per person to fund the construction. |
In 2012, struggling science-fiction writer Jackson Curtis is a chauffeur for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's ex-wife Kate and their children, Noah and Lilly, live with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon Silberman. Jackson takes Noah and Lilly camping in Yellowstone National Park. When... |
Charlie shows Jackson his video of Charles Hapgood's theory that polar shift and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar predict a 2012 phenomenon and the end of the world. Charlie reveals that anyone attempting to inform the public was killed. The sudden departure of Karpov's sons Alec and Oleg makes Jackson realize Char... |
The group flies to Yellowstone to retrieve Charlie's map of the arks' location. The Yellowstone Caldera erupts. Charlie stays behind to finish his broadcast and dies in the eruption. The group barely escapes with Charlie's map. Realizing they need a larger plane, the group lands in Las Vegas. |
Adrian, Carl, and First Daughter Laura fly to the arks, while President Wilson remains in Washington to address the nation. With the Vice-President's helicopter going down and the Speaker of the House missing, Carl becomes the acting commander-in-chief. Jackson runs into Yuri, Alec and Oleg, Yuri's girlfriend Tamara, a... |
Their plane runs out of fuel as they reach China. Sasha lands the jet, as the others escape in a Bentley Continental Flying Spur stored in the hold, but is killed when the plane slides off a cliff. The others are spotted by Chinese Air Force helicopters. Yuri and his sons have tickets, and are taken to the arks, but ev... |
With Tenzin's help, they stow away on Ark 4, assigned to the U.S. While welding the door closed, Tenzin is injured and Gordon is crushed to death by the gears. An impact driver gets lodged in the gears, jamming a boarding gate open, which prevents the ship's engines from starting. |
With a large tsunami approaching, Carl orders the loading gates be closed though most people have not boarded. Adrian begs the captain and the other arks not to perpetrate such a cruel act. The loading gates are opened and the passengers quickly board the arks. Yuri falls to his death in a canyon as he pushes his sons ... |
Twenty-seven days later, the waters are receding. The arks approach the Cape of Good Hope, where the Drakensberg mountains have now become the highest mountain range on Earth. Adrian and Laura begin a relationship, while Jackson and Kate rekindle their romance and reunite their family. |
An alternate ending appears in the film's DVD release. After Captain Michaels (the Ark 4 captain) announces that they are heading for the Cape of Good Hope, Adrian learns by phone that his father, Harry, and Harry's friend Tony survived a megatsunami which capsized their cruise ship Genesis. Adrian and Laura strike up ... |
John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a struggling writer and a father of two children. |
Chiwetel Ejiofor as geologist Adrian Helmsley, chief science advisor to the U.S. President. |
Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, a medical student and Jackson's former wife. |
Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the White House Chief of Staff. |
Thandiwe Newton (credited as Thandie Newton) as Laura Wilson, an art expert and First Daughter. |
Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States and Laura's father. |
Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a fringe science conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host. |
Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate's son. |
Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate's daughter. |
Tom McCarthy as Gordon Silberman, a plastic surgeon/pilot and Kate's boyfriend. |
Zlatko Burić as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire and former boxer. |
Beatrice Rosen as Tamara Jikan, Yuri's girlfriend. |
Alexandre and Philippe Haussmann as Alec and Oleg Karpov, Yuri's twin sons. |
Johann Urb as Sasha, Yuri's pilot. |
John Billingsley as Frederick West, a colleague of Adrian. |
Ryan McDonald as Scotty, Adrian and Frederick's assistant. |
Jimi Mistry as Satnam Tsurutani, an Indian astrophysicist who discovers the neutrinos which are warming Earth's crust. |
Agam Darshi as Aparna Tsurutani, Satnam's wife. |
Chin Han as Tenzin, an ark worker who attempts to save his family. |
Osric Chau as Nima, a Buddhist monk and Tenzin's brother. |
Tseng Chang as Grandfather Sonam, their grandfather. |
Lisa Lu as Grandmother Sonam, their grandmother. |
George Segal as Tony Delgatto, a jazz singer |
Blu Mankuma as Harry Helmsley, Adrian's father and Tony Delgatto's vocal partner. |
Stephen McHattie as Captain Michaels, the captain of Ark 4. |
Patrick Bauchau as Roland Picard, the director of the Louvre who is killed with a car bomb by the U.S. government |
Henry O as Lama Rinpoche, a Buddhist monk. |
Karin Konoval as Sally, President Wilson's secretary. |
Michael Buffer as himself, announcing for a boxing match in Las Vegas. |
Dean Marshall as the Ark 4 communications officer. |
Zinaid Memišević as Sergey Makarenko, the President of Russia. |
Merrilyn Gann as the German Chancellor. |
Lyndall Grant as Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California. |
Vincent Cheng as a Chinese colonel. |
Leonard Tenisci as the Italian Prime Minister. |
Parm Soor as the Saudi Arabia Prince who helps to pay for the construction of the Arks. |
Elizabeth Richard as Queen Elizabeth II. |
Frank C. Turner as Preacher. |
Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods was listed in 2012's credits as the film's inspiration, and Emmerich said in a Time Out interview: "I always wanted to do a biblical flood movie, but I never felt I had the hook. I first read about the Earth's Crust Displacement Theory in Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Go... |
Later that month, Sony Pictures Entertainment received the rights to the spec script. Planned for distribution by Columbia Pictures, 2012 cost less than its budget; according to Emmerich, the film was produced for about $200 million. |
Filming, originally scheduled to begin in Los Angeles in July 2008, began in Kamloops, Savona, Cache Creek and Ashcroft, British Columbia in early August 2008 and wrapped up in mid-October 2008. With a Screen Actors Guild strike looming, the film's producers made a contingency plan to salvage it. Uncharted Territory, D... |
The film depicts the destruction of several cultural and historical icons around the world. Emmerich said that the Kaaba was considered for selection, but Kloser was concerned about a possible fatwā against him. |
2012 was marketed by the fictional Institute for Human Continuity, featuring a book by Jackson Curtis (Farewell Atlantis), streaming media, blog updates and radio broadcasts from zealot Charlie Frost on his website, This Is The End. On November 12, 2008, the studio released the first trailer for 2012. With a tsunami su... |
The studio introduced a viral marketing website operated by the Institute for Human Continuity, where filmgoers could register for a lottery number to be part of a small population which would be rescued from the global destruction. David Morrison of NASA, who received over 1,000 inquiries from people who thought the w... |
Comcast organized a "roadblock campaign" to promote the film in which a two-minute scene was broadcast on 450 American commercial television networks, local English-language and Spanish-language stations, and 89 cable outlets during a ten-minute window between 10:50 and 11:00 pm Eastern and Pacific Time on October 1, 2... |
The film's score was composed by Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander. Singer Adam Lambert contributed a song to the film, "Time for Miracles", originally written by Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider; Lambert expressed his gratitude in an MTV interview. The 24-song soundtrack includes "Fades Like a Photograph" by Filter a... |
2012 was released to cinemas on November 13, 2009, in Indonesia, Mexico, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, China, India, Italy, Turkey, the United States, and Japan. According to the studio, the film could have been completed for a summer release but the delay allowed more time for production. |
The DVD and Blu-ray versions were released on March 2, 2010. The two-disc Blu-ray edition includes over 90 minutes of features, including Adam Lambert's music video for "Time for Miracles" and a digital copy for PSP, PC, Mac, and iPod. A 3D version was released in Cinemex theaters in Mexico in February 2010. It was lat... |
2012 grossed $166.1 million in North America and $603.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $769.6 million against a production budget of $200 million, making it the first film to gross over $700 million worldwide without crossing $200 million domestically. Worldwide, it was the fifth-highest-grossing... |
2012 ranked number one on its opening weekend, grossing $65,237,614 on its first weekend (the fourth-largest opening for a disaster film). Outside North America it is the 28th-highest-grossing film, the fourth-highest-grossing 2009 film, and the second-highest-grossing film distributed by Sony-Columbia, after Skyfall. ... |
In 2020, the film received renewed interest during the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming the second-most popular film and seventh-most popular overall title on Netflix in March 2020. |
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 39% based on 247 reviews and an average rating of 5.20/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Roland Emmerich's 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length." On Metacritic, the film ha... |
Roger Ebert praised 2012, giving it 3+1⁄2 stars out of 4 and saying that it "delivers what it promises and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year". Ebert and Claudia Puig of USA Today called the film the "mother of... |
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone compared the film to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, writing: "Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity." Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail gave the film 1/4 st... |
In 2010 Entertainment Weekly reported a planned spin-off television series, 2013, which would have been a sequel to the film. 2012 executive producer Mark Gordon told the magazine, "ABC will have an opening in their disaster-related programming after Lost ends, so people would be interested in this topic on a weekly ba... |
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