Where to watch 2012 (2009)

Trivia & production notes

• Director Roland Emmerich found his concept for a disaster film after reading Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, which introduced him to the Earth's crust displacement theory.
• Roland Emmerich and composer Harald Kloser co-wrote the spec script for 2012 together before marketing it to studios in February 2008.
• The film was produced for approximately $200 million, coming in under its original budget projection.
• Filming took place across British Columbia in Kamloops, Savona, Cache Creek, and Ashcroft rather than the originally planned Los Angeles location.
• The filmmakers considered depicting the destruction of the Kaaba but abandoned the idea after composer Harald Kloser worried about the possibility of a fatwa.
• Five visual effects companies—Uncharted Territory, Digital Domain, Double Negative, Scanline, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—were hired to create the film's effects.
• The film's score was composed by Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander, with Adam Lambert contributing the song "Time for Miracles."
• Sony's viral marketing campaign for the film caused NASA scientist David Morrison to receive over 1,000 inquiries from people who believed the fake Institute for Human Continuity website was real, including teenagers expressing suicidal thoughts.
• A Comcast promotional broadcast of a two-minute scene reached 450 American television networks and cable outlets simultaneously, reaching approximately 90 percent of households watching ad-supported television.
• The film received an alternate ending on its DVD release that was not shown in theaters, featuring additional scenes with the surviving characters after the global catastrophe.

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