May 22, 2029—With the December holiday movie season expected to be cut off by the upcoming end of the world, Hollywood is rushing out a host of blockbuster films it was planning to release at Christmas time.
That results in an extra rich fare of big budget suspense and fantasy films for moviegoers this summer. There will be remakes and new installments of big franchises. But everything is aimed at pure escapism.
The fun begins today with the release of Terminator 7: Don’t Fight the Future. The latest installment in the Terminator franchise takes off from end of the previous release, Terminator 6: Terminated, in which rebel leader John Connor goes back in time and successfully stops the destructive supercomputer mainframe Skynet from killing off most of humanity. In this film, Connor (Freddie Highmore, the eighth actor to play the role), finds he’s bored being an average Joe in a normal world and hatches a plan to revive Skynet so he has something to do. A digital copy of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the T-1000 model he summons back from the future to help him restore chaos and death.
Other highlights for the summer include:
On the Beach
A remake of the post-apocalyptic 1959 film, based on the 1957 novel of the same name, about a group of survivors of the nuclear fallout from World War III.
Battlestar Galactica: The Motion Picture
The film version of the classic TV series about the survivors of a devastated human civilization traveling through space in search of the fabled planet of Earth. The fleet, led by the military ship Battlestar Galactica, are homeless after a nuclear-armed cybernetic race known as the Cylons destroy their world.
X-Men: Vengeance
Wolverine, Storm and the rest of the world’s top mutants band together to retaliate against the evil Magneto for destroying most of the world.
Independence Day
A remake of the classic 1996 sci-fi film in which a disparate group of individuals fight back against aliens that have destroyed most of the world.
In interviews with top film critics, we asked if the summer movies reflect the apocalyptic zeitgeist sweeping the globe as Asteroid 2009 XFIII plummets toward Earth.
“Ya think?” said critic Richard Roeper.
But there are limits to what Hollywood will inflict on a public anxious about the future of humanity. Disney’s Touchstone Pictures has decided against releasing Armageddon, a remake of the 1998 film about an effort to stop a massive asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Apparently that one just hits too close to home.
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