Gordon is persuaded to fly the rented plane despite his protests of having no experience with the particular type of plane, but he manages to get everyone in flight just in time as much of the West Coast sinks into the Pacific Ocean. As the Earth-crust displacement begins, causing a 10.9 magnitude earthquake, Jackson races to get to his family and manages to get them to the airport. After Jackson and his children return home, the sudden departure of Karpov makes Jackson realize Charlie was right and he rents a Cessna 340A at Santa Monica Airport to rescue his family. Charlie reveals that anyone attempting to inform the public was or will be killed. That night, after the military evacuates Yellowstone, Charlie shows Jackson his video of Charles Hapgood's theory that polar shift and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar predict a 2012 phenomenon and the end of the world. After being released, they meet conspiracy theorist Charlie Frost, who hosts a radio show from the park about the end of the world. When they enter an area fenced off by the United States Army, they are caught and brought to Adrian, who is studying the geology of the area and has read Jackson's books. Jackson takes Noah and Lilly camping in Yellowstone National Park. Jackson's former wife Kate and their children, Noah and Lilly, live with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon Silberman. In 2012, struggling Manhattan Beach, California-based science-fiction writer Jackson Curtis is a chauffeur for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov.
By 2011, valuable art is moved to the arks, but art expert and First Daughter Laura Wilson is told it is being sent to the Alps for preservation. Funding is raised by secretly selling tickets to the rich and famous for €1 billion per person. Nima, a Buddhist monk, is evacuated and his brother Tenzin joins the ark project. China and the G8 nations begin building nine arks, each capable of carrying 100,000 people, in the Himalayas near Cho Ming, Tibet. In 2010, Wilson and other world leaders begin a secret project to ensure humanity's survival. In Washington, D.C., Helmsley presents his information to White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who brings him to meet U.S. In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in India and learns that an exotic new type of neutrinos from a huge solar flare are heating the Earth's core. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its visual effects, but criticism of its screenplay and runtime. After a lengthy advertising campaign which included the creation of a website from its main characters' point of view and a viral marketing website on which filmgoers could register for a lottery number to save them from the ensuing disaster, 2012 was released on November 13, 2009, to commercial success, grossing over $769 million worldwide against a production budget of $200 million, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2009. Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows geologist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor) and novelist Jackson Curtis (Cusack) as they experience an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcano eruptions, megatsunamis and a global flood, all of which were imagined by subscribers to the hypothesis.įilming, originally planned for Los Angeles, began in Vancouver in early August 2008 and wrapped up in mid-October 2008. The film stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson.
Franco, and written by Kloser and Emmerich. It was produced by Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, and Larry J. 2012 is a 2009 American science fiction apocalyptic disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich.
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