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2012 And The Ghost Of Irwin Allen

24 June 2008 5:42 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

There’s a synopsis and review of the spec script for Roland Emmerich’s end of the world disaster movie 2012 that Sony bought before the writers’ strike over at Latino Review. It is completely spoiler-filled so I’ll only give the highlights here.

Since it’s an Emmerich film and that pretty much guarantees it will be awful, I didn’t mind reading the full thing.

Irwin Allen is best remembered for having pretty much invented the disaster movie genre with such films as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. To make sure he covered all the bases he went on to produce made-for-tv-movies with titles like Fire!, Flood! and Cave-In.

 

Since aliens attacking the Earth to wipe out mankind and a weather-driven end of life on Earth weren’t quite enough, Emmerich seems to want to carry on the spirit of Mr. Allen with a real disaster doozy:

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Vic Holtreman

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