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Rogue Dwarf Stars, Crazy Gravity, And Dropped Calls!! Can The Guy From JAG Save Us??

Published at:  Apr 18, 2008 8:46:35 AM CDT



Merrick here...


JAG's David James Elliott has signed onto an epic science fiction miniseries called IMPACT.

the effects-heavy "Impact" chronicles the aftermath of a meteor shower during which a piece of a dwarf star lodges itself in the moon. That triggers a series of anomalies on Earth, including cell phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic weightlessness. Astrophysicist Alex Kinter (Elliott), with a help of a female astronomer, discover that the moon has been dislodged from its orbit and is on a collision course with Earth.


...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.

So that's why I've been experiencing sporadic weightlessness!?!?

The moon hitting Earth? That would kinda suck. But cell phones not working? That's a superbitch.











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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:00:05 AM CDT

    the impact of being first

    by holodigm

  • Apr 18, 2008 9:08:58 AM CDT

    AFTERSHOCK!!!

    by kosherwookie

    Second! Also, will only watch this if Catherine Bell turns up in the recurring role of a bikini-clad nymphomaniac astronaut...

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:12:16 AM CDT

    Will there be a Black President?

    by evilwizardglick

    You know Black POTUS Morgan Freeman fucked shit up the first time.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:18:23 AM CDT

    will there be crossovers with Earth Vs. Moon?

    by holodigm

    hopefully nick fury shows up

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:29:24 AM CDT

    Alex Kintner????

    by jimmy rabbitte

    ??? that kid got eaten by a shark in '75....

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:41:28 AM CDT

    As long as the internet still works...

    by worthless

  • Apr 18, 2008 9:42:53 AM CDT

    Wish there was an edit button

    by worthless

    What I meant to say was

    "As long as the internet still works...

    cause once you see japanese girls puking in each other's mouths, its kinda hard to go back to playboy"

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:47:27 AM CDT

    I had a dream like this.

    by scudd

    A comet hit the moon and broke it in half, and the larger half was slowly drifting toward the earth, getting bigger in the sky with each passing day. The dream was mainly about society's collapse and my own struggle to come to terms with the fact I was going to die.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:55:41 AM CDT

    Wow, and how the hell do they plan of FIXING the problem?

    by skidmarkedundies

    Or is this a show that's ending is pretty much bleak and useless?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 9:56:37 AM CDT

    **ON** not **OF**.

    by skidmarkedundies

    They really need an edit button. Oh wait . . . that's why they have the ZONE. My bad.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:02:42 AM CDT

    Can't they just send Prof. Ray Palmer...

    by kid z

    ... to the moon to carve that white dwarf fracment into a lens, incorporate resulting lens into a shrink-ray, then blast off back ...into space to shrink the hurtling moon down to baseball size so astronauts can just nab it with a catcher's mitt and put it back into its proper orbit by hand before Palmer zaps it back to moon-size. Problem solved!

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:03:03 AM CDT

    Ye gods NO!!!! Not cell phone service interruption!!!

    by yeti

    What will people do when they're driving or shopping or walking down the street????!! Oh, the Humanity!!

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:05:21 AM CDT

    Hey Scudd...

    by kid z

    ... that or you went to bed after a marathon session of watching the Thundarr the Barbarian DVD box set.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:10:18 AM CDT

    Cell Phone Interruption...

    by kid z

    ...Yeah... god forbid I have to go anywhere without having to hear teenage girls loudly having the following apparently one-sided conversation, "So then she's like, bitch!... Can you even believe it?... Yeah...So then I'm like, no, you're the bitch, bitch! Oh yeah I did! Then she's like, who're you calling bitch, you bitch and I'm like, you're the bitch, whoredog..." Yeah, I'd really miss that....

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:26:20 AM CDT

    And don't forget...

    by darth wickedchicken

    This will cause the birth of Thundar the Barbarian and his mighty Sun Swoard.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:29:19 AM CDT

    Would America nuke the Moon??

    by performingmonkey

    as another false flag 'terrorist' act?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:48:58 AM CDT

    Got excited for a minute by that synopsis...

    by azimuthmedia

    ...until I realized it WASN'T my long dreamt-about 'Thundarr the Barbarian' adaptation. God I loved that cartoon.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 11:17:49 AM CDT

    I guess this one's not that 'Deep'.

    by reel american hero


    Coming soon on another network. NCIS' Mark Harmon stars in 'Maggeddon' about another meteor shower affecting earth.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 11:32:18 AM CDT

    Save the problem

    by homer40

    I actually would love to see one of the "end of the world" movies actually have the world end. Both "Deep Impact" (good) and Armageddon (bad) pussied out. The best of these films is still "When Worlds Collide" (which they actually optioned when they made "Deep Impact") in which, as predicted, the world actually gets destroyed. The genius of the plotting allowed for a first near miss by one rogue planet, causing all sorts of great special effects mayhem, and the second rogue planet smashing right into us and destroying the world alltogether. Admittedly, there was a core group of people who were able to make it to the first planet, and to presumably build a new civilization, but at least the world actually ended. It would be great if someone adapted T.C. Boyle's "Friend of the Earth" or Margaret Attwood's "Oryx and Crake", or the absolutely awesome "Brief History of the Dead" from last year. This was a great book, in which the world is destroyed by a virus. In the book, we exist in an afterlife city only so long as someone on earth remembers us. As the world dies off, the city is first filled, and then quickly emptied, as those on earth who could remember also die. The last person on earth is a woman who has been in the Artic at a research station. As the book progresses, only those people that she remembers, sometimes only as little as a single brief meeting, remain in the post life city. Great book.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 12:06:27 PM CDT

    Space 2009

    by snowpuff

    Will they then send the moon flying through the universe and have wacky space adventures?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 12:47:32 PM CDT

    Dropped Calls

    by jonas grumpy

    I can't hear you now.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 12:49:41 PM CDT

    KosherWookie

    by jonas grumpy

    Aftershock, humanity's loss! Aftershock, all is destroyed! Aftershock, have no remorse! Aftershock, into the void! (Give it up for Anthrax, bitches.)

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:02:52 PM CDT

    'Maggeddon'...

    by kid z

    ...Not if Grant Morrison and his lawyer have anything to say about it, he doesn't. That dude from NCIS'll have to come up with another title. (Yeah, I admit it... late 90's JLA comics are a guilty pleasure of mine!)

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:03:54 PM CDT

    Can You Hear Me Now?

    by boggycreekbeast

    Hellz NAW! A white dwarf just stole my cell phone!

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:05:40 PM CDT

    Thundarr rocked!...

    by kid z

    ... or, as Ookla the Mok would say, "GAAaarrrrghghh!"

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:14:10 PM CDT

    I guess we'll go with 'Arma' then instead

    by reel american hero


    Morrison's JLA run in the '90s was pretty good from what I remember.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:18:27 PM CDT

    LIFE AS WE KNEW IT

    by brians life

    a rather interesting young adult book told from the POV of a 16 year old girl's diary after a meteor hits the moon bringing it twice as close to Earth and SHIT GOES DOWN....willing to bet that reading this book again (meant for teenagers) will be better than this show.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 1:20:54 PM CDT

    Cell Phones

    by brians life

    The other day I was coming out of the elevator and as the door opened there was a woman on her cell phone.She visibly JUMPED when she saw me and I said "Yeah, another human being."Really though, I find it amazing that I can walk to the Coffee Bean, buy a latte and walk back to my place without talking to ANYONE if I want to.what would our grandparents think of that!?!?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 2:40:54 PM CDT

    Depends on the network

    by 7cal

    The premise sounds cool, but it will all depend on the network. Sci-fi? Never gonna watch it? NBC or Fox? Meh, maybe depending on what the ads look like. HBO or Showtime? It would never happen but hell yeah how awesome would that be. I like the fact that it's an "epic miniseries" instead of a 2 1/2 hour "movie event" that is filled with an hour's worth of commercials. Maybe if it's 8 - 10 hours they can actually get a good story and decent characters in there.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 2:41:17 PM CDT

    That should be

    by 7cal

    Sci-fi? Never gonna watch it.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 3:14:26 PM CDT

    Space: 2009

    by capnpower

    This could be a Gerry Andersen series.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 3:57:20 PM CDT

    Ugh. Are they even trying?

    by triceratops on fire

    Since when did science fiction films and TV have to omit the "science" part in order to be made? For every semi realistic BSG we get this turd-blossom.A part of a dwarf star? You mean like hydrogen? Helium? Maybe some iron?"Discovered" that the moon became dislodged from orbit? Like when you discover a lump in your sack?ugh.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 4:54:46 PM CDT

    a miniseries about phone interruptions

    by geodesigns

    brought to you by Sprint, Motorola, Verizon and all other phone companies that appear fucked up in the miniseries-- can you hear me now?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 5:13:57 PM CDT

    Will Martin Landau

    by skimn

    or Barbara Bain make a cameo?

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  • Apr 18, 2008 10:01:30 PM CDT

    Cool!

    by mrd

    I could stand to lose some weight.

    Though I'm pretty sure a piece of white dwarf lodged in the moon would have far more devastating effects, at least this is a relatively new idea for an SF series.

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  • Apr 18, 2008 11:51:38 PM CDT

    Worst effect: Random menstruating!

    by flim springfield

  • Apr 19, 2008 12:23:40 AM CDT

    Who plays Link?

    by pirateemery

    Moon on a collision course for earth? Who is playing Link and who is voicing Majora?

    Personally, I would have adapted Ocarina of Time first, but beggars can't be choosers.

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  • Apr 19, 2008 1:03:39 AM CDT

    I second Catherine Bells involvement.

    by otm shank

    She makes my glands swell. :0

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  • Apr 19, 2008 10:03:21 AM CDT

    THE MOON RULEZ!

    by br1947

    [flipping the bird] "I hope he can see this 'cause I'm doing it as hard as I can."
    sorry, couldn't resist! :-)

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  • Apr 19, 2008 10:13:33 AM CDT

    Is it at all unusual that no network is mentioned?

    by spacehog

    I mean, I'm completely ignorant in these things--I figured a network would have to sign on for this before they started shooting it. They're just going to make it and THEN sell it to someone?

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  • Apr 19, 2008 10:32:35 AM CDT

    More than cellphone disruption

    by kabong

    if Moon out of orbit.

    The stupid bitches of TV business "think" they're doing science fiction with more lamo feeb crap.

    Don't forget to put a dog in it.

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  • Apr 19, 2008 1:10:26 PM CDT

    "red dwarf sucked"?

    by ikkyu

    "people like to say, oh you just don't get british humour, but they don't either they just pretend to to come off more sophisticated"mate, we Brits *try* not to believe that *all* Yanks are knuckle-dragging Bush-voters who think that Europe is in London - because, you know: we *know* that's not true - but comments like yours don't help.you don't "get" Red Dwarf? um... what's not to get? it's uncomplicated and bloody funny.would the addition of a laughter track help?

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  • Apr 20, 2008 10:03:01 AM CDT

    What is meant by "Help from a female astronomer"

    by jumpinjehosaphat

    Bow-chicka Bow-Bow!!!!

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  • Apr 20, 2008 10:04:19 AM CDT

    I'm old enough to remember life before cell phones

    by jumpinjehosaphat

    You know what we did back then? PLANNED AHEAD!

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  • Apr 20, 2008 3:12:03 PM CDT

    Catherine Bell!!

    by chromedome

    Now THAT would be a reason to watch this--otherwise it sounds pretty stupid.

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  • Apr 20, 2008 11:21:25 PM CDT

    Quick, call on Bruce Willis to blow up the moon!

    by mrmysteryguest

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