Meteor (1979)

Meteor is a 1979 American film directed by Richard Neame and starring Sean Connery, Natalie Woodand Karl Malden , Brian Keith.

The film is based on a research Project Icarus of a number of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. The students wanted to determine if it was possible to a large meteorite which is heading for the Earth to stop a nuclear missiles.

Meteor was a huge flop in the cinemas. There was 16 million invested and there was at first but 4 million back (later would reach up to 8.4 million). Distributor American International Pictures was wiped out. Also the criticism was scathing and the movie was right known as one of the worst films in movie history. Later, the film a cult statusespecially when it turned out that films such as Armageddon (1998) and Deep Impact (1998) debt



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.A Comet appears unexpectedly on near the asteroid belt and comes into collision with the asteroid Orpheus. There breaks a piece with a circumference of eight kilometers of Orpheus. To the dismay of NASA asteroid whizzes the piece right on the Earth the consequences will be disastrous. At the impact of a chunk piece of this magnitude will release energy that corresponds to more than a million times the explosive power of theatomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dropped. While the scholars discuss the possible consequences are small fragments of the broken fragment already on the Earth and focus extensive damage to. It is clear that wait and see is not an option, there should be a solution. The US has a possible solution, the satellite Hercules, designed by Dr. Paul Bradley. Hercules is actually a large platform in the area armed with missiles with nuclear cargo. The system was ever intended as a repellent against comets and asteroids but is now relegated to a nuclear platform directed against the Soviet Union. The US wants to Hercules on the onrushing asteroids scherf focus but realizes that the number of missiles is not enough to stop it. They know, however, that the Russians have a similar platform, Peter the great, called. A combined attack of Hercules and Peter the great will most probably be sufficient. Problem, however, is that the Soviet Union does not want to admit that they have a nuclear missile system in the area. Meanwhile, professor Bradley arrived in the underground control centre of Hercules in Manhattan. Bradley tries his colleague in the Soviet Union, Dr. Alexei Dubov to convince of the impending danger. Together with Harry Sherwood of NASA and the Commander of the control center, major-general Adlon wait in anxious tension or how the Soviet Union will react. As clips go down, the Soviet Union and his assistant Dr. Dubov tack and arrive and translator Tatiana Donskaya in Manhattan. Both satellite platforms, each armed with sixteen missiles with nuclear, are turned in the direction of the clip. Peter the great fires the first time its missiles, forty minutes later followed by Hercules. While the scientists nail biting wait for the impact of the rockets, falling fragments still on the Earth. Hong Kong is hit by a gigantic tsunami like a splinter of the asteroid crashes into the ocean. New York also is hit and one of towers of the World Trade Center collapses. Also the control centre of the Hercules on Manhattan Gets a weft. Many scientists come to and the survivors try to pave a way out. The exits are blocked, so they in the tunnels of the New York subway. However, if the East River floods and the water penetrates the tunnels also seems their hour struck. However, the Group of survivors know with great difficulty to reach metro station, where they have to wait for the rescue workers. Just when the metro station is cracked open and the survivors to walk outside, there will be a message over the radio. The rockets have embarked in the asteroid fragment and have it completely destroyed. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Title Reference<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The movie is called Meteor (Meteor), but there is a rotsfragment in the film constantly, born after a collision between a Comet and an asteroid. Why is it called the film than not Comet (Comet) or asteroids Wi (asteroid)?A comet is a mixture of stone and ice and moves in an elongated orbit around the Sun, most comets are no bigger than 10 to 20 kilometers. Asteroids are bits rock that are in light elliptical orbits between the planetsMars and Jupiter move. These asteroids do not pose a threat to the Earth. Two class asteroids, the Apollo and Atenplanetoïden have strongly elliptical orbits and are near the Earth. The asteroids vary in size and still have each other or collide at a comet (as in the film). Fragments that come off are called meteorites. If these fragments fall to earth they come first in contact with the atmosphere. Most of the debris will burn. The areas that are not on earth are called meteoroids burn and stocking up. Most meteorites are too small to be noticed, but the Earth is significantly larger in the past also affected by meteorites. It is suspected that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a meteorite with a diameter of 10 kilometers (about the size of the meteorite in the film). ===For History<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">American International Pictures (AIP) was still a relatively young studio in Hollywood in 1979. Founded in the 1950s it was best known as a producer of horror-and beach party films, which were made for a very low budget. In the mid-1970s was to focus on a larger audience and looked for a suitable topic. Disaster films at that time had a lot of success. Films such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno reached a large audience. In 1979 was the boom in disaster films actually passed, but that didn't stop AIP not to come up with a combination of science fiction film a disaster film annex. There was a big budget allocated (eventually reaching 16 million) and several big stars recorded. For the Director pulled one Ronald Neame to. Neame had among other things The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 directed. He was brought in by the set designerWilliam Creberof that movie, which was also recorded for Meteor. Neame had soon regret his decision. The five film producers and AIP layers clashed with each other and with Neame. Not long after William Creber evil ran away after a row over his contract and Neame began to fear the worst. What worried him most was the total lack of a scenario. ===Scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meteor had a scientific background. In 1967 studied students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of professor Paul Sandorff a hypothetical impact of 1566 Icarus, a fragment of an Apollo asteroid impact on Earth and any countermeasures to prevent that with nuclear weapons. This so-called Project Icarus described the ability to fire off rockets with nuclear on 1566 Icarus. Time Magazine published an article about the number of 16 June 1967 the investigation under the title "Systems Engineering: Avoiding an Asteroid". Student Louis a. Kleiman research in book form published in 1968 as "Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering". But all these scientific treatises formed just the inspiration, any impact of a large meteorite and the ability to destroy the clip with atomic weapons. What was missing was a story around these events. Writer Edmund h. North, known from The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) was drawn, but his version was rejected. He was succeeded by Stanley Mann, screenwriter of The Collector (1965).Mann worked for three months at the scenario of North and came up with a version that the approval of everyone could support. ===Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the scenario was written, Neame started with the auditions. As with the The Poseidon Adventure he was able to use a star cast. One of the first who was captured was Sean Connery in the role of Dr. Paul Bradley.To make the movie with a romantic touch Bradley had to fall in love and was the role of Russian translator Tatiana in the film written. Actress Natalie Wood went Tatiana play. As the role required that affects a number of dialogues in Russian Tatiana Wood had to get back to school. Although she was born of Russian parents, immigrants who were simply to speak Russian at home, not even the language spoke Wood. She could understand and speak a few words the Russian somewhat. In preparation for her role, she attended the Berlitz Language Institute and did a crash course in Russian. She had to keep the Russian dialogues also with actor Brian Keith that the scholar Alexei Dubov plays. Keith had less time to prepare than Natalie Wood. He replaced at the last moment actor Donald Pleasence who renounced the role. In one of the smaller roles isHenry Fonda shows up as president of the United States. Fonda's role was larger, but much of his footage was cut from the film. So loved Fonda in his role as president such a glowing speech that the Extras and the film crew in a spontaneous applause erupted. Unfortunately for the moviegoer the scene ended up on the ground of the editing room. ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With a budget that would amount to 16 million dollars was an important film for AIP Meteor . The studio decided to tackle the production and rented parts of the MGM studio in Culver City off. Included was the giant zwembadset who once was special built for swimmer/actress Esther Williams. The set designers transformed the empty bath to a labyrinth of underground tunnels and a drive. But the problems that were already visible during the preparations were not solved when the shots began. Director Ronald Neame had no confidence in the producers and the producers not in Neame. The actors could look bad the feet with it in their eyes was a strange mix between an unbalanced scenario that disaster film, a romantic tête-à-tête and a science fiction film with an emphasis on science (Science). At all these interpersonal problems were now also technical problems. From day 1 went wrong with the shots fell down, roofs, scaffolding collapsed and a technician survived narrowly a fall of ten meters which ended on a concrete floor. The second unit team that had to make recordings of an avalanche in the Alps in South Germany discovered that there was no snow. Neame became increasingly frustrated and made even argue with Natalie Wood on the layers of makeup she wore. The Wood was too much and she bit Neame admitted they would wear less makeup as Sean Connery would drop off his toupee. The early climb-down which Neame. He had still enough to keep doing other things to. The shooting of inundation of the New York City subway were a nightmare. It took eight days with a cost of $ 1.5 million before the scenes there on stood against. Half a million pounds of bentonite clay was about the actors poured out while they move through the water of the swimming pool converted to metro struggled. Bentonite clay swells 10 to 15 times as it comes into contact with water and seems than on mud. It was supposed to be this artificial ' mud ' heating it to the actors as pleasant as possible. But by the heating, there was fog and camera lenses. For the actors was not only the cold water unpleasant, also the bentonite clay insisted anywhere in by. Some irresponsibly stuffed cotton in their ears to protect them from the ' mud '. The bentonite clay also made it difficult to wade through the water as it pulled in clothes and the actors felt that they had become pounds heavier ===Post Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Adding special effects would happen in post production. For a film like Meteor with exploding buildings and hitting nuclear missiles it was extremely important that the effects were good, because moviegoers came there for. Some effects were simple. So people used existing film footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoegebouw in St. Louis for the scene where one of the towers of the WTC being hit. Architect Minoru Yamasaki had both the WTC in New York as the Pruitt-Igoegebouw designed and the buildings had many similarities. But the curse that seemed to be about to pronounce the movie extended about the post production. Technical problems made most of the shots with special effects unusable. The part what is used could be looked often artificial and cheap out. A desperate Richard Neame invested an emergency meeting to discuss the problems and save the movie. He wanted more money to improve the special effects, but producer Sandy Howard refused, the studio had spent too much money. There followed a giant hassle and eventually understood Neame that he should take his loss. He could only get some cheap let insert effects and try the other effects what to shine. But the end result remained lean. Meteor seemed doomed. ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 19 October 1979 Meteor went in Premiere. In the first weekend, the film was released on 575 cinema screens in the US and spent $ 2.25 million on The reviews were devastating and the public remained. droves.Eventually the film in the US 4.5 million and 8.4 million in total in the world in 1979. American International Pictures went bankrupt and was bought out by Filmways, Inc. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="296" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the presentation of the Academy Awards was nominated in the category best sound Meteor . ==New version<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="340" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2009, a NBC miniseries in two volumes (a total of four hours) under the title Meteor with roughly the same plot as the movie from 1979.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 title reference
 * 3.2 history
 * 3.3 Scenario
 * 3.4 Actors
 * 3.5 Production
 * 3.6 Post production
 * 4 Receipt
 * 5 awards and nominations
 * new version 6
 * 7 References
 * 8 external link