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ABC Picks Up Moon-Collision Sci-Fi Miniseries IMPACT!!
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ABC has picked up U.S. broadcast rights to “Impact,” a four-hour miniseries about a meteor hit that sends the moon into a collision-course with Earth.
Variety has the talent involved:
Directed by Michael J. Rohl ("Smallville," "Supernatural"), "Impact" stars David James Elliott ("JAG"), Natasha Henstridge ("Eli Stone"), Steven Culp ("Desperate Housewives") and James Cromwell ("W.").
I was just watching “Deep Impact” the other day and noticed Cromwell was in that too. If there are astronauts dispatched to cut the moon into tiny chucks with lasers, I hope they all come down with “space dementia.”
“The Last Templar,” “XIII,” and “Crusoe” were also international miniseries co-productions, and they were all perfectly terrible.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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It's a JAG reunion ... on the moon!
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This does sound like a dud.
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We shall meet again.
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What's the math here? Wouldn't it take much more momentum than a meteor could manage to redirect the moon at the earth at a rapid pace? I could see a slight trajectory alter that would cause the moon to move in its orbit towards the Earth rather than away (as it's currently doing), but to actually negate the current orbital velocity in order to send it towards Earth?
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Get your late 90s meteor disaster films straight, Herc.
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What... is that like He Man? Are they mates?
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not only would the asteroid have to be of near equal size to the moon to send it toward earth, it would have to move at a speed too great for an object that size, besides if the moon was sent hurtling toward earth the gravitational pull would cause massive ocean waves that would destroy our civilization before we could ever assemble some kind of team and send them to space
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Right???
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This would make a much more credible mini-series (and that's saying something).
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As my fellows Geeks above have observe this makes no sense. We'd all be fucked. Knowing this, i of course would seek solace in the company of eastern European prostitutes
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the moon hit by a collision, had a moon base on it and then spun away from the earth... well then.. then you might have something.
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If a meteor hit the moon and it was heading toward earth, we wouldn't have time to come up with some crazy scheme to drill to the center and detonate a nuclear weapon. Man Cromwell is getting low rent these days.
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Wow, a story that makes the Bruce Willis-charged Armageddon look intelligent. I never thought I would see this day. This has to be the most moronic idea I have seen for a movie based on "science" and I saw "The Core" (and I still want my money back after being subjected to that piece of non-sense).
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Mar 09, 2009 1:49:32 AM CDT
Competition for NBC's "METEOR" upcoming Mini-Series!?!?!
by electricdreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlx_tMXdEZk
Convinient timing to compete no doubt w/ the upcoming NBC mini-series starring Christopher Lloyd, Ernie Hudson, Erin Cottrell, Jason Alexander, Billy Campbell and Stacy Keach... -
Possibly the 80s? I seem to remember this daft fucking idea being done by one of the networks in my youth.
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Wouldn't tidal waves destroy the entire planet once the moon moved even slightly?
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when disaster movies involved buildings on fire or runaway trains.
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It's a Space station!
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...this sounds bad. really bad.
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I predict this from afar.
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Mar 09, 2009 7:55:32 AM CDT
A large enough object passing through our system could move the
by smashing
No direct impact is required, just enough mass, what's up with people moaning about real science not being used in science fiction, you do know what fiction means right?
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the 1979 "Meteor" with Sean Connery and Natalie Wood? "Fock de Dodgers!"
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Says Helo.
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A mass large enough to pull the moon out of its orbit and send it colliding with Earth, would have to be on the order of a black hole.
And if anything that massive passed between the moon and the earth, we'd be fucked long before the moon started moving. -
These horseshit mini-series are just terrible. Why can't they do a good job with a plot like this ? Hell, the last good "impact" disaster movie was Meteor ... just to watch Brian Keith hamming it up as a stereotypical Russki scientist. Armaggedon bordered on the verge of at least being fun. Deep Impact was basically shiite (although I like looking at Tea Leoni).
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They are remaking everything else, so why the fuck not. Keep the original theme music though, and the eagle design, they rocked! Tie it into a coka-cola marketing stunt where they put diet coke bottles all over the moon and then synchronise dropping billions of mentos thus causing a mega reaction knocking the moon really out of orbit. The ensuing world war III will occur when the Chinese realise they can no longer have a Chinese lunar calendar or new year which was caused by an imperilist western corporation. For the first season flick back and forward between the moon escaping the genocide, and a young Eagle pilot called "Milo" stranded on Earth trying to get back to the moon but being seduced by a hot asian chick as part of the Chinese plan to breed a half asian-half caucasian super being.
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Whats round, but not always around?
Its light sometimes,its dark sometimes
Everyone wants to walk on it, but only a lucky few ever have....
What is it??????
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Where is Tom Cullen when you need him.
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Who pitched this idea to the people at ABC? Sarah Palin's Down's Syndrome child? No, better yet, who BOUGHT this abortion at ABC? Jesus-cutting the moon up with lasers? AAAAGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Back off, man! Don't make me....use it!
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It was cheap and stupid, but it was ten times more entertaining than Grey's Fucking Anatomy.
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Mar 09, 2009 2:35:16 PM CDT
Can't LUCAS make a DIG movie from the computer game?
by darfurontherocks
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...This premise sounds like the bottom-drawer 3 A.M. ramblings of some mildly demented Gen-Xer who was laid from his job working for Northrop Grumman, lost his wife and kid, moved back in with mom and started hitting the bottle. Then he came across a bunch of old VHS tapes packed into a couple of trunks in his attic and started re-watching 'Meteor' and 'Thundarr the Barbarian'. One night he got particularly liquored up and stupefied, got his old Selectrix out of the closet and banged out a twelve-sentence story after eating some bad pizza and catching 'Asteroid' on Starz!Action. Then he faxed it to an old college buddy who's now a low-level aide at NBC Universal. And, presto blammo, we have ourselves a miniseries! Blargh.
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Get Sean Connery back!
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And, for the record, I liked "Crusoe."
Nice beach, nice treehouse. Sam Neill was a good villain. Mia Maestro was Mia!!!!!!!!!! -
Awesome
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that'll do......
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You knew it was coming bitches.
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"This is so much fun it's freaky!"
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It could work I suppose.
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