Filming, originally scheduled to begin in Los Angeles in July 2008, began in Kamloops, Savona, Cache Creek, and Ashcroft, British Columbia, in early August 2008 and wrapped up in mid-October 2008.
The new release “2012” is inspired by a popular myth about the apocalypse based on the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar around Dec. 21, 2012. UCLA professors, among others, have debunked this rumor.
Much of the world was destroyed. Over 6 billion people died during the apocalypse and humanity became critically endangered. 26 days after the Worldwide Flooding occurred, global floodwaters from the tsunamis start to recede, allowing the remainder of mankind to begin a new life in Africa.
Trivia. In the film, Africa is the only continent that survived the 2012 Apocalypse and risen after 27 days. Africa, in the film, being the last place on Earth to remain habitable, is an allusion to Africa being the cradle and birthplace of humanity.
The Notebook - A 2012 Visit To The Filming Locations
Why did the movie 2012 fail?
The dialog was always cheesy and none of the 'hero's' in this film really showed any real emotions nor did they give any of those speeches that give the audience goose bumps. Another thing that really bothered me was that so much was almost going wrong the whole time.
During the apocalypse, gigantic tsunamis at the height of 1500 meters, formed by the magnitude of the corresponding quakes began to flood the entire planet, causing all global ground communication to cease, as well the loss of electricity and radio relays.
TSUNAMI of 11 April, 2012 (Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra) A great earthquake with a moment magnitude of 8.6 (USGS magnitude) occurred at 08:38:37 UTC 11 April 2012 (day 102) and was located 270 mi/433 km SW of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia (2.311N, 93.063E, 14.2 mi/22.8 km depth--USGS location).
When the apocalypse ended, the three remaining Arks arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, allowing the surviving passengers and crew can remake their lives.
Jackson rejoins with his family, and he and Kate reconcile. As flood waters from the tsunamis slowly recede, the arks travel to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where the Drakensberg Mountain range has now emerged. Helmsley starts a relationship with Laura while Jackson and Kate rekindle their relationship.
Space agency Nasa has named and shamed Roland Emmerich's world-ending disaster flick, 2012, as the most absurd and scientifically flawed sci-fi blockbuster in recent memory.
According to 2012 on List of Deaths Wikia, Earth's population was around 7 billion, which leads to 7,160,280,055 before the apocalypse happened. Since more than 400,000 people had survived, which means 6,059,943,277 humans were killed during the apocalypse.
During the 2012 Apocalypse, Hawaii was hit by multiple volcanic eruptions, resulting the whole state of Hawaii to be engulfed entirely of lava. The state was going to be the fuel stop for the Antonov 500.
Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows geologist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor) and novelist Jackson Curtis (Cusack) as they struggle to survive an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis, and a global flood.
It is the second film in the Asylum's 2012 trilogy though the films have nothing to do with one another. The third film is titled 2012: Ice Age which was released in 2011.
In 2012, one ticket for the Ark cost 1 billion Euros but there were only 1.226 billionaires in the world at the time. How did all the other passengers get their tickets?
Leaders of big countries secretly began a project to ensure humanity's survival ( not all of course ), by building enormous Arks ships in a secret mountain at China. Estimates of the dimensions of one Ark state a length of 850 meters, a width of 120-150 meters, and a height of 110 meters.
In total, the 2012 storms caused 355 known fatalities and nearly $71 billion in damage. The highest predicted significant wave height was 17m in 2012, but much higher waves occur occasionally in the open ocean.
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis generally reach a maximum vertical height onshore, called a run-up height, of no more than 100 feet above sea level. A notable exception was the 1958 tsunami triggered by a landslide in a narrow bay on Alaska's coast. Its over 1,700-foot wave was the largest ever recorded for a tsunami.
The second half of The Impossible features Henry and his new friend Karl searching in numerous places, including hospitals, to find their loved ones. Eventually, Henry is reunited with his wife and son, Maria and Lucas, but the movie never shows what happens to Karl and his wife and daughter.
The Alvarez family who are “The Impossible real family” eventually bid goodbye to Daniel who met with his father who had come looking for him. The young boy was reunited with his folks and the Alvarez family never heard of him since.
