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Páginas: 6 (1443 palabras)
Publicado: 22 de octubre de 2012
The Earth is destroyed in the year 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar. It all starts years before, in 2009 when Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) one of the scientists, travels to the India where is your Satnam (Jimi Mistry) friend who has discovered that the Sun suffers major solar storms in the history of humanity, what has caused that the neutrinos willstart a series of physical reactions that raise the temperature of the Earth's core. Adrian Helmsley, immediately returned to Washington, D.C., where the Chief of staff, Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), who immediately reports to the President of the United States, Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover). In 2010, when they have already confirmed by scientific means of the catastrophic events that will come,President Wilson informed the other heads of State during the thirty-sixth meeting of the G8 and requested the collaboration of the most industrialized countries forming the IHC (Institute for Human Continui...)
The IHC is a secret organization that counts on the collaboration of all Governments in the world, which begin the construction of gigantic buildings/coffers at the top of the Himalayasto save a representative group of human beings, animals and plants, as well as part of the artistic heritage of humanity. The IHC informs the billionaires of the world of the situation, and that to be among the lucky ones must pay 1 billion euros per seat, in order to save on the ships/boats. In 2011 continue preparations, are shipped the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, which is replaced by a copy, andthe original sent officially to a deposit of security at Switzerland, although it is actually sent to the Himalayas as you will discover below. The story jumps to 2012 when happen mass suicides of people governing to the Mayan calendar in the maya city of Tikal in Guatemala.
Meanwhile, Curtis Jackson (John Cusack) is a writer, father divorced that occasionally works as a limousine driver, whilehis ex-wife, Kate (Amanda Peet) lives with her two children Noah (Liam James) and Lily (Morgan Lily) and have remade his life with his new stepfather, Gordon (Thomas McCarthy), a renowned plastic surgeon and amateur pilot of airplanes. Jackson plans a family trip, with his sons Noah and Lily to Yellowstone National Park. Jackson leads her children to a restricted area where the Yellowstone Lakecompletely dry, so you are detained by the army of the United States and brought to Adrian Helmsley, who is investigating the geological activity of the Yellowstone caldera. This lets them go, congratulating Jackson on his Farewell Atlantis book, and tells him that he is a great admirer of yours. Once released, Jackson takes her children to the area of camps, where they meet Charlie Frost (WoodyHarrelson), a radio announcer, who asked about what told them geologists, Curtis tells him that it is nothing and Frost embarks on laugh. Already at nightfall, Jackson camping coincidentally near the van of Frost, both begin to chat and while they talk about Frost tells you that the world has come to an end, and that there is a series of spacecraft that will save to a select few. Jackson immediatelyaway from Frost, thinking that it is suffering some psychological disorder.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles a large crack part in two shopping centre where Kate and Gordon were, so call Jackson immediately back to Los Angeles. Huge cracks are beginning to appear throughout the city, while the Government has given the order to start shipping immediately, by the select group is informed that should go toChina.
Jackson, already in Los Angeles, returns to his work of conductor, where moved to the sons of Yuri, a Russian billionaire, to the airport. After an incident Yuri children tell him that he's going to die and that they are going to save in a few large ships. This, and a huge crack that appears below the limousine, raises suspicions in Jackson to immediately rent an airplane and intends to...
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