Independence Day: Resurgence. Even his upcoming movie
Moonfall is about blowing up the planet (the Moon is going to crash into the Earth!). But Emmerich’s true disaster movie
pièce de résistance is
2012, a bombastic, macabrely funny, nearly 3-hour showcase for the end of the world. It rules.
You might not remember this at this point – so much other crazy shit has happened since – but as the year 2012 approached, there was a lot of talk about an ancient Mayan prophecy that suggested the world would end on December 21, 2012. Of course, that didn’t happen, and like the fears of Y2k, the fears of 2012 seem silly and quaint in retrospect. Of course, most people weren’t really afraid of the so-called Mayan prophecy to begin with, but still – it was fun to speculate. And since Roland Emmerich never misses an excuse to kill billions of people for the sake of entertainment, he jumped at the chance to make
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