2012 releases 11/11/2009

2012 is a 2009 disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film has an ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Zombie star Woody Harrelson. The film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures – Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver. The film’s release date is November 11, 2009. Happy?

The film is inspired by the idea of a global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar’s current cycle on or around December 21, 2012 (the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice), which was recently proven innacurate.

Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father who occasionally works as a limousine driver and a writer, while his ex-wife Kate Curtis (Terrible actress 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. And then they try to save all of the animals and mankind, The End.

Oh, and singer Adam Lambert from American Idol contributed a song for the film called “Time for Miracles”, so the film must be good.

Did you know? 2012 was originally scheduled to be released on July 10, 2009. The release date was changed to November 12, 2009 (Nov. 13 in the US) to move out of the busy summer schedule into a time frame that the studio considered to have more potential for financial success. According to the studio, the film could have been completed for the summer release date, but the date change will give more time to the production.