A New British movie is to tell the story of the ancient cataclysm that's believed to be the basis for the Atlantis legend.
The BBC has announced the TV film, to be called Atlantis and directed by Primeval's Tony Mitchell, will "tell the dramatic story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancient world, a disaster that triggered the downfall of a civilisation and spawned a legend."
The film will be made using the same techniques as Zack Snyder's Spartan war epic 300 and will be accompanied by a documentary looking at the historical evidence.
Around 1620 BC a gigantic volcano in the Aegean Sea stirred from its 19,000-year slumber.
The eruption tore apart the island of Thera, producing massive tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation - the Minoans.
This apocalyptic event, many experts now believe, provided the inspiration for the legend of Atlantis.
The BBC has announced the TV film, to be called Atlantis and directed by Primeval's Tony Mitchell, will "tell the dramatic story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancient world, a disaster that triggered the downfall of a civilisation and spawned a legend."
The film will be made using the same techniques as Zack Snyder's Spartan war epic 300 and will be accompanied by a documentary looking at the historical evidence.
Around 1620 BC a gigantic volcano in the Aegean Sea stirred from its 19,000-year slumber.
The eruption tore apart the island of Thera, producing massive tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation - the Minoans.
This apocalyptic event, many experts now believe, provided the inspiration for the legend of Atlantis.
- 2/28/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Genius Products recently released the DVD artwork and release details for their upcoming film “Flood” by director Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano) and starring Robert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later), Tom Courtenay, David Suchet and Jessalyn Gilsig. Synopsis: Timely yet terrifying, Flood unleashes the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England’s East Coast and into the Thames Estuary, overwhelming the Barrier. Torrents of water engulf the city. The lives of millions [...]...
- 6/15/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and 70 other Hong Kong stars have united to record a Cantonese version of "We Are the World" to help raise funds for victims of last month's Indian Ocean tsunami. Chan also has donated $64,000 to UNICEF. In England, British broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting's Sky News maintained a three-minute silence at noon Wednesday to commemorate the 150,000-plus victims. BBC said it was shelving plans to air its spring season highlight Supervolcano, a £3 million ($5.7 million) co-production with Discovery, as a result of the disaster. In Canada, CHUM Disaster Relief Day, which ran across all CHUM radio and TV stations nationally Wednesday, raised more than CAN$1 million for the Canadian Red Cross in just eight hours. CHUM Ltd. donated an additional CAN$100,000. General Electric, which includes NBC Universal, matched the $1 million its employees donated to the International Red Cross and UNICEF. The company also is giving away another $8 million in goods and services.
LONDON -- British broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting's Sky News maintained a three-minute silence at noon Wednesday to commemorate the 150,000 plus who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. The event took place as the BBC said it was shelving plans to air its spring season highlight Supervolcano, a £3 million ($5.7 million) co-production with Discovery, as a result of the disaster.
LONDON -- BBC1 will head its winter lineup with disaster drama Supervolcano, a £3 million ($5.8 million) project that looks at the catastrophic U.S. and global scenario that would unfold should the 50-mile deep supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park erupt, channel head Lorraine Heggessey said Wednesday. The program, a co-production with Discovery, ProSieben, NHK Japan and Italy's Mediaset, encompasses the run-up to the eruption and the 10 days after the volcano explodes and uses CGI technology to re-create a pyroclastic cloud with a 100-mile fallout radius. The volcano has erupted every 600,000 years, scientists believe, but 640,000 years have elapsed since its last eruption, making the next disaster well overdue.
- 12/2/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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