地球浩劫 (1979)
Meteor
在与一颗彗星发生碰撞后，小行星“奥菲斯”上一块近8公里宽的碎片正朝地球飞来。如果撞击发生，将会引发一场毁灭性的灾难，人类可能会因此灭绝。为了阻止流星，美国宇航局想使用非法核武器卫星“大力神”，但很快就发现它的火力不足。他们唯一拯救世界的机会就是与苏联合作，苏联也发射了类似的非法卫星。但两国政府会同意合作吗？
演员阵容
- 肖恩·康纳利 — Paul Bradley
- 娜塔莉·伍德 — Tatiana Donskaya
- 卡尔·马尔登 — Harry Sherwood
- Brian Keith — Dr. Dubov
- 马丁·兰道 — General Adlon
- 特瑞沃·霍华德 — Michael Hughes
- 理查德·戴萨特 — Secretary of Defense
- 亨利·方达 — The President
- Joseph Campanella — General Easton
- Bo Brundin — Rolf Manheim
- Katherine De Hetre — Jan Watkins
- James G. Richardson — Alan Marshall
趣闻
- 票房：US$840万
- 预算：US$1600万
- 票房达到预算的 0.5 倍
- 获奖：0 · 提名：1
Meteor is a 1979 science-fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, from a screenplay by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North. It stars Sean Connery and Natalie Wood, along with an ensemble cast featuring Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda.
Production
Theodore R. Parvin received the idea for the story from a Saturday Review article by Isaac Asimov about a meteor hitting a major city in the United States. Parvin hired Edmund H. North to write the screenplay, and North took further inspiration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Project Icarus.
During the writing of North's first draft, Parvin secured financing and investment from the Shaw Brothers Studio, Warner Bros. Pictures, Nippon Herald Films and American International Pictures (AIP). The film was an AIP co-production with British Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers. $2.7 million of the budget came from AIP.
Neame cast Natalie Wood as Tatiana because she was the daughter of Russian immigrants, and she worked with George Rubinstein to perfect a Leningrad accent. Alec Guinness, Yul Brynner, Rod Steiger, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Eli Wallach, Telly Savalas, Theodore Bikel, Richard Burton and Orson Welles were each considered for the role of Dr. Dubov. Donald Pleasence was cast for the role and filmed a few scenes as the character.
Principal photography took place from October 31, 1977, to January 27, 1978, mainly at MGM Studios in Culver City, California, with some location filming in Washington, D.C., St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. The release date was scheduled for June 15, 1979, but it was pushed back to October 19 due to special effects reshoots after special effects director Frank Van der Veer was fired.
Veteran effects artist Frank Van de Veer's work was deemed unusable and subsequently discarded after much had already been shot, and William Cruse and Margo Anderson were hired to reshoot as many special effects as possible with what money remained in the special effects budget. Their work was also deemed unsuitable, and were also fired.
在维基百科阅读更多 · 文本来自维基百科，CC BY-SA 4.0。数据来自 Wikidata。