Synopsis
Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass. According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) uses his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser.
Consumer Advice:
Contains sustained moderate threat and one use of strong language
Special Features
- movieIQ
- BD Live
- Interactive Mayan calendar
- Picture-In-Picture
- Pre-Visualization, storyboards and behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with filmmakers, cast and crew
- 'Science Behind The Destruction' featurette
- 'The End Of The World: The Actor's Perspective' featurette
- Commentary with writer-director Roland Emmerich and co-writer Harald Kloser
- Deleted scenes
- Alternate ending
- 'Roland Emmerich: The Master Of The Modern Epic' featurette
