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Armageddon
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
1998 · Directed by Michael Bay · 151 min · Action · Science Fiction · Adventure · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
For love. For honor. For mankind.
Plot
A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and extensively damaging New York City. The meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns it will impact Earth in 18 days, wiping out all life on the planet.
NASA devises a plan to drill a deep hole into the asteroid, into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to split it into two pieces that will each pass to one side of Earth. They recruit Harry Stamper, a third-generation oil driller and owner of an oil drilling company, who agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling. He picks his best employees for the job: Chick Chapple, his best friend and right-hand man; geologists Rockhound and Oscar Choice; and drillers Bear Curlene, Max Lennert, Freddie Noonan, and A. J. Frost (who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections). Over twelve days, they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie Sharp, who will pilot Freedom—one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid, the other being the Independence. Before leaving, Chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son—who is unaware of his parentage—and Grace accepts A.J.'s marriage proposal, much to Harry's reluctant dismay; she later has her father promise to return home safe and with her fiancé.
Following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike, word of the asteroid becomes public to the world. Both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station to take on fuel, but a broken pipeline sets the fuel pod ablaze. A.J. and Roscosmos cosmonaut Lev Andropov narrowly manage to board Independence before the space station is obliterated.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams
- Cinematography: John Schwartzman
- Edited by: Mark Goldblatt, Chris Lebenzon, Glen Scantlebury
- Music: Trevor Rabin
- Production design: Michael White
- Produced by: Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd
Cast
- Bruce Willis as Harry S. Stamper
- Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman
- Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost
- Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper
- Will Patton as Chick
- Steve Buscemi as Rockhound
- William Fichtner as Willie Sharp
- Owen Wilson as Oscar
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Bear
- Peter Stormare as Lev Andropov
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Valhalla Motion Pictures
- Budget: $140,000,000
- Box office: $553,799,566
- Themes: daughter, race against time, space marine, moon, washington dc, usa, saving the world, cataclysm, paris, france, asteroid, self sacrifice
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