Deep Impact
Deep Impact film poster
Directed by	Mimi Leder
Produced by	David Brown Richard D. Zanuck
Written by	Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin
Starring	Elijah Wood Leelee Sobieski Morgan Freeman Robert Duvall Téa Leoni James Cromwell
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Dietrich Lohmann
Editing by	Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom
Distributed by	- USA - Paramount Pictures - non-USA - DreamWorks
Release date(s)	May 8, 1998
Running time	121 min.
Language	English
Budget	$75 million
IMDb profile

Deep Impact is a 1998 science fiction disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Duvall. The plot describe events which take place surrounding the discovery of the fictional "Comet Wolf-Biederman," due to collide with the Earth, and the attempt to destroy the comet before impact. It was released on May 8, 1998. A film poster for Deep Impact, contended as fair use. ... Mimi Leder (born January 1, 1957) is an American film director. ... David Brown may refer to any of the following people: David M. Brown (1956–2003), American astronaut David Brown (cricketer) (born 1942), English cricketer David Brown (footballer), striker who plays for Accrington Stanley F.C. David Brown (Australian rules footballer), (born 1969), Australian footballer for Adelaide and Port Adelaide Football... Richard Darryl Zanuck (born December 13, 1934) is an American movie producer. ... Bruce Joel Rubin (born March 10, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan in the United States) is a screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance, Ghost for which he won an Oscar. ... Michael Tolkin (born 1950) is an American filmmaker and novelist. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ... Leelee Sobieski (born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski on June 10, 1983[1]) is an American actress. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director. ... Téa Leoni Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni on February 25, 1966) is an American actress. ... James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940), sometimes credited as Jamie Cromwell, is an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor. ... James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... This article is about the film studio. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A disaster film is a film that has an impending or ongoing disaster (e. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ... Mimi Leder (born January 1, 1957) is an American film director. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ... Téa Leoni Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni on February 25, 1966) is an American actress. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Leelee Sobieski (born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski on June 10, 1983[1]) is an American actress. ... Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director. ... Comet Hale-Bopp Comet West For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). ... Artists impression of a major impact event. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

Taglines

• "Heaven and Earth are about to collide".
• "Cities fall. Oceans rise. Hope survives".

Cast

• Robert Duvall as Captain Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner, USN
• Téa Leoni as Jenny Lerner
• Elijah Wood as Leo Biederman
• Vanessa Redgrave as Robin Lerner
• Maximilian Schell as Jason Lerner
• Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck
• Leelee Sobieski as Sarah Hotchner
• James Cromwell as Al Rittenhouse
• Ron Eldard as Oren Monash
• Jon Favreau as Dr. Gus Partenza
• Mary McCormack as Andrea "Andy" Baker
• Blair Underwood as Mark Simon
• Richard Schiff as Don Biederman
• Laura Innes as Beth Stanley
• Kurtwood Smith as Otis Hefner
• Dougray Scott as Eric Vennekor
• Denise Crosby as Vicky Hotchner
• Charles Martin Smith as Dr. Marcus Wolf
• Rya Kihlstedt as Chloe Lerner
• Aleksandr Baluyev as Colonel Mikhail Tulchinsky, VVS

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Plot summary

As Leo Biederman (Wood) and Sarah Hotchner (Sobieski), two teenage astronomy club members, observe the stars, Leo discovers a new object. Leo takes a photo and mails it with the coordinates to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith). Wolf confirms the sighting at an observatory, and after discovering the comet will hit Earth he attempts to alert his colleagues, but is unable to get through. He saves the data to a disk, but dies in a car crash after leaving the observatory. Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ... Leelee Sobieski (born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski on June 10, 1983[1]) is an American actress. ... Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor and director. ...

One year later, Jenny Lerner (Leoni), a field reporter for MSNBC in Washington, DC, is assigned a story regarding the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Al Rittenhouse (James Cromwell). After Lerner interviews Rittenhouse's wife, who implicates her husband as having an affair with someone named Ellie, Lerner confronts Rittenhouse, who believes Lerner knows about the comet. As Lerner deduces she is on to something more, the FBI apprehends her to find out what she knows. In a meeting with President Tom Beck (Freeman), Lerner agrees not to report about "Ellie" for 48 hours, and over the next two days Lerner discovers that the government was hiding its knowledge about "E.L.E", an acronym for an extinction-level event. In exchange, President Beck gives Lerner the story of a lifetime by allowing her to ask the first questions at a White House news conference... Téa Leoni Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni on February 25, 1966) is an American actress. ... MSNBC, a combination of MSN and NBC, is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States and Canada, and a news website. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the finance minister of the Federal Government of the United States. ... James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940), sometimes credited as Jamie Cromwell, is an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) is a period in time when a large number of species die out. ...

Beck announces the comet's existence and its track. The comet is seven miles wide, large enough to destroy civilization if it strikes Earth, and that NASA will send a crew of astronauts on the spaceship Messiah to the comet, now named "Wolf-Biederman". Led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner (Duvall), their mission is to destroy it using nuclear weapons. Duvall is a pop/rock band with Christian-oriented lyrics. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...

Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck, giving his inspirational speech on the steps of the destroyed Capitol Building.

In order to prevent opportunism in this crisis period, Beck freezes all wages and prices. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Photo of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, December 2003. ...

Life changes drastically worldwide, and Leo Biederman and Jenny Lerner both become celebrities, though Leo tries to live as normal a life as he can. He and Sarah fall in love. Jenny is swiftly promoted to an anchor for MSNBC, and is reunited with her estranged father (Maximilian Schell), though their relationship is still quite strained. Maximilian Schell (left) in the film Judgment at Nuremberg Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is a Swiss-Austrian actor. ...

Messiah is constructed in orbit. The crew use the Space Shuttle Atlantis to reach it. They travel to the comet and plant the bombs, but their medical officer, Dr. Gus Partenza (Favreau), is lost in an explosive outgassing as the sun "rises" on the comet, and pilot Oren Monash (Eldard) is blinded and severely burned after accidently looking at the sun. The nuclear explosion's shock wave damages the vessel, cutting off contact with mission control back on Earth. The comet is not destroyed, however, instead splitting into two objects, one piece 10 kilometers wide ("Wolf")—the other 2.5 kilometers wide ("Biederman"). Messiah’s remaining crew sets a course back to Earth, still carrying some unused bombs, in the hopes of making one last attempt to destroy one or both. For the current Space Shuttle mission, see STS-117 NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ... Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is one of the fleet of space shuttles belonging to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ...

President Beck, acknowledging Messiah’s failure, announces that special underground shelters have been built in Missouri and other areas around the world as a contingency. The government will conduct a lottery to randomly select 800,000 ordinary Americans to join 200,000 pre-selected scientists, engineers, teachers, artists, soldiers and officials. These people will be part of a worldwide effort to save mankind from extinction. Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... For a List of scientists, see: List of anthropologists List of astronomers List of biologists List of chemists List of computer scientists List of economists List of engineers List of geologists List of inventors List of mathematicians List of meteorologists List of physicists Scientist pairs List of scientist pairs See... Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP-5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ... An official is, in the primary sense, someone who holds an office in an organisation, of any kind. ... Look up Mankind in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Dodo, shown here in a 1651 illustration by Jan Savery, is an often-cited[1] example of modern extinction. ...

Beck declares martial law as the lottery's selectees are notified. Jenny and Leo are both among the pre-selected. Leo, being a minor, is permitted to bring his family. He also gets permission to marry Sarah, in order to save her and her family. When the day arrives to evacuate to the caves, the soldiers have no record of Sarah's family being allowed to accompany Leo and Sarah, prompting Sarah to remain behind as well.

Upon arriving at the caves, Leo leaves, determined to be with Sarah whether he lives or not. He makes his way to her home, but finds it empty. Taking Sarah's father's motorbike, he locates Sarah and her family gridlocked on a freeway. With her parents' blessing, he takes Sarah and her infant brother on the motorbike to high ground in the Appalachian Mountains. Appalachians in North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of mountains in eastern North America. ...

Meanwhile, MSNBC is being evacuated by helicopter. Jenny gives her seat to co-worker and rival Beth Stanley (Innes) because she has a young daughter, and sends them off to the caves. She then goes to the coast to be with her father at his beach house. They have time to reconcile before they face their doom. A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ...

The megatsunami from the impact of the "Biederman" comet overwhelms the coast of Virginia.

Ultimately, after a last-ditch effort to use all of Earth's missile-borne nuclear weapons to destroy the comets fails, "Biederman" splashes down in the North Atlantic Ocean near Virginia Beach and Cape Hatteras, creating a megatsunami several thousand feet high. Jenny, her father and Sarah's parents all die, along with others who did not evacute in time. Coastal cities such as Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. are destroyed, as well as Atlanta and Florida (as seen from the Messiah spacecraft). Leo and Sarah manage to climb high enough to survive. Later in the movie, we learn that the wave also hit Europe and Africa. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Megatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or “wave of purification”) is an informal term used mostly by popular media and popular scientific societies to describe a very large tsunami wave beyond the typical size reached by most tsunamis (usually around 10 metres). ... For other uses, see Atlantic (disambiguation) The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ... Part of the Virginia Beach oceanfront resort strip. ... An aerial view of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse prior to its 1999 relocation. ... Megatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or “wave of purification”) is an informal term used mostly by popular media and popular scientific societies to describe a very large tsunami wave beyond the typical size reached by most tsunamis (usually around 10 metres). ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Settled 1630 Incorporated (city) 1822 Government  - Governor Deval Patrick (D) Area  - City  89. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Nickname: Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: , Country United States Commonwealth Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government  - Mayor John F. Street (D) Area  - City 369. ... Part of the Virginia Beach oceanfront resort strip. ... Motto: Crescas (Latin for, Thou shalt grow. ... Nickname: Motto: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights) Location of Charleston in South Carolina. ... Coordinates: , County Chatham Government  - Mayor Otis S. Johnson Area  - City 202. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - D.C. Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2... Hotlanta redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... The Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...

The crew members of Messiah inform NASA of their decision to try to blow up the remaining, larger fragment by flying into a fissure that has formed in the comet and exploding the remaining bombs. They will all die whatever the result, but have enough time to say goodbye to their families. Messiah succeeds in breaking up "Wolf" into small enough pieces that they burn up entering Earth's atmosphere, saving humanity. Afterwards, President Beck gives an inspirational speech, in front of the reconstructed U.S. Capitol building, to begin recovery and rebuilding efforts. United States Capitol The United States Capitol is the building which serves as home for the legislative branch of the United States government. ...

Source material alterations

Though producer Steven Spielberg optioned the Arthur C. Clarke novel The Hammer of God for film production, the film bears no resemblance to the novel, and Clarke was not given any credit on the film.^[1] Whereas Deep Impact focuses on the pre-impact effects on civilization, Clarke's The Hammer of God is focused on post impact civilization and recovery on earth.^{[2] [3] [4]} Also, none of the individuals in the novel are present in the film. Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ... The Hammer of God is a science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1993. ...

Competition

A competing "space impact" film, Armageddon, was released about two months following Deep Impact. Deep Impact's story is distinctly more serious than the comic-book style Armageddon, and has a stronger emphasis on the effect on society. Deep Impact was also lauded by astronomers as being scientifically relevant, unlike other motion pictures based on the asteroid-hits-earth scenario. Both films were hits, though Armageddon did better at the box office. For other films with this name, see Armageddon (disambiguation). ...

Trivia

• Inspired by the film When Worlds Collide. ^[5]
• An actual giant object from space did once strike the general area of the Eastern Seaboard where "Biederman" impacted in the film. Hitting the Norfolk, Virginia vicinity about 35 million years ago, it created the huge, now-buried Chesapeake Bay impact crater.
• The film portrays the wave that struck New York City crashing over and around the towers of the World Trade Center, which were the only buildings barely above water at the end of the sequence, surviving the wave. After the events of the September 11 terrorist attacks, some television broadcasts of the film were edited to remove the buildings.
• At the beginning of the movie when Dr. Wolf is using his computer the screen reads May 10, 1998.
• Early in the movie, Dr. Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) is shown working at the "Adrian Peak Observatory in Arizona." The scene was actually filmed in the dome of the 100 inch Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory, north of Los Angeles.
• This film discussed preparations for surviving a massive comet strike upon the Earth, and mineshafts are drafted into service for this reason, in an echo of the survival plan in Dr. Strangelove. Additionally, a lottery system is proposed for selection of candidates for survival, much like that proposed by Dr. Strangelove himself.
• In the Director's Commentary and Special Features, the director and computer animators admitted to putting "one hell of a mean-looking face" on the comet, as a bit of an in-joke.
• On the list from which Dr. Wolf takes the name of Leo Biederman his name is spelled "Beiderman," and Dr. Wolf writes it the same way when he labels the disk with the comet's data. In the credits, the name is spelled Biederman.
• A spoof was done on Chappelle's Show on what would really happen when President Beck (Freeman) tells the public that the earth will be hit.
• This was the first film made by DreamWorks that was co-produced with another major studio.
• Michael Bay, the director of the competing Armageddon, was invited and did attend the movie premiere.^[6]
• To achieve the speed necessary to reach the comet in time, the new spaceship has special booster engines from Russia, dubbed Orion and described as being designed to propel weapons of mass destruction. Project Orion is a real-life theoretical high-speed spacecraft engine, where the idea is to generate thrust through nuclear explosions that push against a drive plate.
• A line was edited in the President's press conference scene. President Beck stated Life will go on, we will prevail. Originally, President Beck said Life will go on, we will prevail. This is not armageddon. When the producers realized that the movie was going to be in competition with Armageddon they cut that part of the line.

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References

1. ^ http://www.locusmag.com/1999/Issues/09/Clarke.html
2. ^ http://online.tvguide.com/movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=39864
3. ^ http://www.space-frontier.org/PROJECTS/ASTEROIDS/aclarke_address_may26-98.html
4. ^ http://hazardous.com/egogram99.html
5. ^ http://www.time.com/time/community/transcripts/chattr031998.html
6. ^ [Michael Bay in commentary track #1 of the Criterion edition of Armageddon]

See also

• Extinction level event (ELE)
• Asteroid deflection strategies
• Deep Impact (space mission)

An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) is a period in time when a large number of species die out. ... Artists impression of a major impact event. ... Illustration of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation (artists conception) Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. ...

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