Deep Impact is a 1998 American science-fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. The film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
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Deep Impact is a 1998 American science-fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. The film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. It was released in the same summer as a similarly themed film, Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate. Both films were similarly received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 39% and Deep Impact scoring 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. Deep Impact grossed over USD 349 million worldwide on an USD 80 million production budget.
The origins of Deep Impact started in the late 1970s when producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown approached Paramount Studios proposing a remake of the 1951 film When Worlds Collide. In the mid 1990s, they approached director Steven Spielberg, with whom they had made the blockbuster Jaws, with a long-planned project. The Hammer of God was based on a 1993 novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which dealt with an asteroid on a collision course for Earth and humanity’s attempts to prevent its extinction. In 1995, the film was announced in industry publications as what would become Deep Impact. The final film by cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann, who died before the film’s release, was Deep Impact, which was released on May 8, 1998, in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally.
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