I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That’s when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
I’m a filmmaker, not a scientist.
When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it’s so much better than movies in some ways.
It’s like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they’re still watching American movies.
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American/Canadian science fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich. The film depicts catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age.
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On an expedition in Antarctica the paleoclimatologist Jack Hall with his colleagues Frank and Jason is drilling for ice-core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA when the shelf breaks off and Jack almost falls to his death.
Later on, in New Delhi, India, Jack presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference, but fails to convince diplomats or Vice President of the United States Raymond Becker. However, Professor Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland believes in Jack’s theories. Several buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in the ocean temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting polar ice has started to disrupt the North Atlantic current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model shows how climate changes caused the first Ice Age. His team, along with NASA’s meteorologist Janet Tokada, builds a forecast model with their combined data. Later on, multiple tornadoes devastate Los Angeles due to the increasing wind surge in Southern California.
Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction. U.S. President Blake authorizes the FAA to suspend all air traffic due to severe turbulence. At the International Space Station (ISS) three astronauts see a huge storm system spanning the northern hemisphere, delaying their return home. The situation worsens when the latter develops into three massive hurricane-like super storms with eyes holding extremely cold air that instantly freezes anything it comes in contact with.
The weather becomes increasingly violent with intense winds and rains, causing the traffic-jammed Manhattan streets to become flooded knee-deep in a mix of rainwater, saltwater, and sewage. Jack’s son Sam, visiting New York City on a school trip, calls his father, promising to be on the next train home, but flooding closes the subways and Grand Central Terminal. As the storm worsens, a massive storm surge hits Manhattan. Sam and his friends seek shelter with a large group of people in the New York Public Library, but not before his friend Laura gets injured.
President Blake orders the evacuation of the southern states of the United States, causing almost all of the refugees to head to Mexico. Jack and his team set out for Manhattan to find his son. Their truck crashes into another vehicle just past Philadelphia, so the group continues on snowshoes. During the journey, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snow-covered shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull him up, the glass under them continues to crack and Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope. Meanwhile in Mexico, Vice President Raymond Becker hears from the Secretary of State that one of the super storms caught President Blake’s motorcade before he could make it to Mexico.
Most of the group taking shelter in the library leaves when the water outside freezes, leaving just Sam and his friends, two librarians, a young woman, an African woman and her young daughter, and a homeless man with his dog. They burn books to stay alive and break into a vending machine for food. Laura appears to have a cold, so Sam comforts her and later confesses his feelings for her. The next morning, the group find out that Laura has blood poisoning from the cut on her leg infected by the sewage-tainted water, so Sam and two others search for penicillin in a derelict Russian cargo-ship that drifted inland. Starving wolves that have escaped from a zoo attacked them. The eye of the super storm begins to pass over the city and the three barely get back to the library.
During the deep freeze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned Wendy’s restaurant, then resume their journey. They discover the library buried in snow, but find Sam’s group alive. They radio this to the government-in-exile in Mexico, and the Vice-President orders UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flown into New York, finding many, many more survivors. Becker, now serving as the President after the death of Blake, orders search-and-rescue teams to look for other survivors as he gives his first address to the nation. The movie concludes with the astronauts looking down at Earth from the Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice and snow, with one of the astronauts calling it “the clearest atmosphere ever seen”.
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That’s when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American/Canadian science fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich. The film depicts catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age.
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On an expedition in Antarctica the paleoclimatologist Jack Hall with his colleagues Frank and Jason is drilling for ice-core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA when the shelf breaks off and Jack almost falls to his death.
Later on, in New Delhi, India, Jack presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference, but fails to convince diplomats or Vice President of the United States Raymond Becker. However, Professor Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland believes in Jack’s theories. Several buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in the ocean temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting polar ice has started to disrupt the North Atlantic current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model shows how climate changes caused the first Ice Age. His team, along with NASA’s meteorologist Janet Tokada, builds a forecast model with their combined data. Later on, multiple tornadoes devastate Los Angeles due to the increasing wind surge in Southern California.
Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction. U.S. President Blake authorizes the FAA to suspend all air traffic due to severe turbulence. At the International Space Station (ISS) three astronauts see a huge storm system spanning the northern hemisphere, delaying their return home. The situation worsens when the latter develops into three massive hurricane-like super storms with eyes holding extremely cold air that instantly freezes anything it comes in contact with.
The weather becomes increasingly violent with intense winds and rains, causing the traffic-jammed Manhattan streets to become flooded knee-deep in a mix of rainwater, saltwater, and sewage. Jack’s son Sam, visiting New York City on a school trip, calls his father, promising to be on the next train home, but flooding closes the subways and Grand Central Terminal. As the storm worsens, a massive storm surge hits Manhattan. Sam and his friends seek shelter with a large group of people in the New York Public Library, but not before his friend Laura gets injured.
President Blake orders the evacuation of the southern states of the United States, causing almost all of the refugees to head to Mexico. Jack and his team set out for Manhattan to find his son. Their truck crashes into another vehicle just past Philadelphia, so the group continues on snowshoes. During the journey, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snow-covered shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull him up, the glass under them continues to crack and Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope. Meanwhile in Mexico, Vice President Raymond Becker hears from the Secretary of State that one of the super storms caught President Blake’s motorcade before he could make it to Mexico.
Most of the group taking shelter in the library leaves when the water outside freezes, leaving just Sam and his friends, two librarians, a young woman, an African woman and her young daughter, and a homeless man with his dog. They burn books to stay alive and break into a vending machine for food. Laura appears to have a cold, so Sam comforts her and later confesses his feelings for her. The next morning, the group find out that Laura has blood poisoning from the cut on her leg infected by the sewage-tainted water, so Sam and two others search for penicillin in a derelict Russian cargo-ship that drifted inland. Starving wolves that have escaped from a zoo attacked them. The eye of the super storm begins to pass over the city and the three barely get back to the library.
During the deep freeze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned Wendy’s restaurant, then resume their journey. They discover the library buried in snow, but find Sam’s group alive. They radio this to the government-in-exile in Mexico, and the Vice-President orders UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flown into New York, finding many, many more survivors. Becker, now serving as the President after the death of Blake, orders search-and-rescue teams to look for other survivors as he gives his first address to the nation. The movie concludes with the astronauts looking down at Earth from the Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice and snow, with one of the astronauts calling it “the clearest atmosphere ever seen”.