Michael Bay May Yet Cause the Apocalypse
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers
I hate thinking about the apocalypse. I used to have recurring nightmares about the end of the world, and despite world events seeming hopeless these days I'd like to think the end is not actually nigh. Other people, however, are happy to discuss the apparently inevitable apocalypse, as well as how it will happen and when. According to Whitley Strieber, author and alien abductee, the end of the world will come in 2012, and he has a book about it coming out in September. TMZ has the scoop that Warner Bros. already has plans to turn the book into a movie and Michael Bay has been set up to produce.
It isn't definite if Bay will also direct, but Transformers screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have apparently been hired to adapt it for the screen. I'll admit that I was once a big UFO buff and I even went to a Strieber book signing, but after awhile my fascination died, partially because everything was getting so depressing. Strieber, for instance, is not just now becoming apocalyptic; he was a co-author of the book that The Day After Tomorrow was based on (he also wrote the film's novelization). I know that one had nothing to do with aliens, but Strieber isn't solely known for his abduction books. He also wrote the horror novels that became Wolfen and The Hunger. There is no synopsis given for his new book, which is called 2012: The War for Souls, but supposedly some UFO theorists believe aliens will invade Earth in 2012.
However, Strieber has previously written an article about the year and our fate in it that has nothing to do with aliens. Instead it references a famous Mayan prophecy and discusses more environmental catastrophes a la The Day After Tomorrow. Whatever the plot of the book and movie, though, it is sure to make me nervous, especially if I think too much about it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-16-2007 @ 11:16AM
jkmkay said...
Mr Strieber is about to make even more money.He's a rich man thanks to a gullible audience.
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3-16-2007 @ 2:53PM
Phatman said...
2012 is also the end of the current baktun of the Mayan calendar (which started August 11, 3114 BCE). Coincidence, I think not. I for one welcome our new alien overlords. Oops, forgot this wasn't slashdot for a second there :)
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3-22-2007 @ 5:46PM
Craig said...
If you want some background on the concept of the Mayan calendar that is the basis of Micheal Bay's new “2012″ movie then you can check out: http://www.aventurasclub.com/mayandoomsday.en.html It explains a little about the whole doomsday theory. Its pretty cool actually.
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4-09-2007 @ 3:43AM
willb said...
The Hollywood Reporter (March 19, 2007) reveals the plot of 2012 in an article discussing the feature film plans: "Strieber's story centers on an academic researcher who discovers that multiple versions of Earth co-exist in different dimensions, but all are threatened by an apocalypse to occur in 2012 prophesied by the ancient Mayans. By opening a portal into a parallel universe, he makes contact with his double to stop the prophecy from being fulfilled. The book is due in the fall by St. Martin imprint Tor." "...[my story] takes place in a triad of 3 parallel earths ...the change of age literally opens doors between worlds that coexist in the same space..." Whitley Strieber (March 2007) "...the theme of this novel is a new vision of the soul and the secret of resurrection" (editor of Strieber's email newsletter, March 2007). Publisher’s Marketplace (Nov 28, 2006) reports: "Whitley Strieber's 2012, a new novel of alien invasion, sold to Bob Gleason at Forge, in a very nice deal, by Russell Galen at Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency." A Tor/Forge press release gives the only indication that 2012 features a character introduced in The Grays (though Strieber has said the book is not a sequel to The Grays): "2012 revisits the issues that Strieber first explored in The Grays... In 2012, another alien species has come to Earth and only teenager Connor Callahan and the last remaining Grays can save humanity from a harrowing fate, and quite possibly, the end of days as predicted by the Mayans." (March 16, 2007)
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