2012 Teaser Trailer Now Available

The teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's upcoming epic movie, 2012, has been rolled out. There is very little to it, except a depiction of giant waves inundating the Himalayas while a Tibetan monk bangs desperately on a gong.

The premise of 2012 is that the Mayans were right and that the world is going to come to an end in the year 2012. Starting next year, neutrinos start cooking the Earth's core and, as a result, by 2012 the world is thoroughly and completed boned.

In the movie 2012 cities are annihilated. Earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions wrack the planet. This includes the eruption of Yellowstone which some suggest would wipe out North America. Then things really start to get nasty.

In 2012 Danny Glover plays the President of the United States, either channeling Barack Obama or Morgan Freedman. The President finds that talking about hope and change alters not one whit the imminent destruction of the world.

Fortunately there is a fleet of space arks being built in China to take the chosen and presumably well connected few to safety. But will they take off in time?

In 2012 the movie, besides Danny Glover, John Cusack stars as a science fiction writer, Amanda Peet as his estranged wife, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as the President's science advisor. Oliver Platt, Thande Newton, and Woody Harrelson also appear.

Roland Emmerich made his big movie breakthrough with Stargate, starring Kurt Russell and a pre Boston Legal James Spader, about a group of American explorers who use an artifact dug up in Egypt to travel to an alien world and meet the Ancient Egyptian God Ra who is, of course, an alien. Stargate spawned two hit science fiction shows, Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, and seems about to spawn a third, Stargate Universe.

Emmrich followed up with Independence Day, a fun movie romp with Bill Pullman, Will Smith, and Jeff Goldblum about an alien invasion of Earth. Independence Day not only featured cool scenes of F 18s doing battle with alien space ships, but the best rip offs of several movies and Shakespeare ever to appear on the screen.

Roland Emmerich's version of Godzilla was not as good, though visually spectacular as a fast moving monster battled the US military in New York. The Patriot was a good, if somewhat sanitized historical epic set in the Revolutionary War south starring Mel Gibson and a pre Harry Potter Jason Isaacs.

Roland Emmerich's decline started with The Day After Tomorrow, a horrid and preacher, but still visually stunning epic about how global warming causes a new ice age. George W. Bush gets killed. Dick Cheney grovels to the Mexicans.

Roland Emmerich's last movie, 10,000 BC was just horrid. It depicted a group of cavemen doing battle with a bunch of pseudo Egyptians who were building pyramids with armies of slaves and, I swear to you, wooley mammoths.

And now Roland Emmerich creates another ultimate disaster movie, 2012, in which he destroys the world. It's due for July, 2009. If it's like most of recent Emmerich it will be laugh out loud stupid, visually stunning, and yet lots of fun.

Sources: 2012, IMDB

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