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‘2012’: a doomsday forecast

The movie ‘2012’, based on the global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar’s current cycle on or around December 21, 2012 hit the cinemas depicting the natural havocs that it is going to create.

Directed by Roland Emmerich and produced by Larry J. Franco, Harold Kloser, the much awaited film will be released at Savoy Wellawatte from December 2 onwards.

The film also inspired by the bestselling non-fiction book ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ authored by Graham Hancock and the film stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson.

Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father who occasionally works as a limousine driver and a writer, while his ex-wife Kate Curtis (Amanda Peet) and children live together with her new boyfriend. In Guatemala reports start coming in of mass suicides in the Mayan jungles of people attempting to avoid the impending apocalypse.

The IHC (Institute for Human Continuity), a secret organization, has realized the situation and begins constructing vast arks beneath the Himalayan mountains designed to withstand most natural disasters in order to save both humanity, significant species, and the greatest treasures of mankind for when doomsday finally happens.

There are arguments however about how and when the governments of the world will alert their fellow citizens and even discussions about how the remaining survivors will be selected to survive Armageddon. When they discover that the global cataclysm is happening much faster than expected, they must race to these ships to save the human race before all is lost.

Meanwhile on a day trip to Yellowstone with his two young children, Jackson meets Charlie Frost, who hosts his own radio segment and blog about his belief that the Mayans are correct about 2012. Despite the pleas from the government that everything is fine, Jackson isn’t convinced.

Hiring a private plane and gathering crucial supplies he races to his ex-wife’s L.A. home to save himself and his family from the Earth’s crust displacement occurring all around them.

After they take off, they fly dangerously through Los Angeles as the entire city crumbles into oblivion around them. As they look back the entire cityscape of Los Angeles has already started to crumble into the Pacific.

A group of survivors, including Jackson Curtis and his family must fight their way to China before they can board the great arks and save themselves from the gigantic tidal waves flooding the Earth.

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