Hi Again....
I've received several private emails inquiring about the timeline of
the making of Hollywood films and the "disasteroid" films (a term
which Larry Lebofsky recently introduced me to) of the 90s in
particular.
I know so little about either topic, however....
SL9 was a trigger for the development of these films. I don't know
any specifics of the preproduction arc of either of these projects---
for example, prior to SL9 something similarly themed may have already
been in development or turnaround---but SL9 certainly put things into
motion, if not having started things up outright. The media's
fascination (and resulting pop cultural appeal) of the novelty of
meteorites being sold at auction was only a catalyst to making
"disasteroids" more of a priority....it tipped them into a higher gear.
Best / dp
Begin forwarded message:
From: Darryl Pitt <[email protected]>
Date: February 1, 2010 7:30:04 PM EST
To: "E.P. Grondine" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dark Angel Falling
I take especial delight in answering the question below.
While these and perhaps similar projects were already in
development, Gene Shoemaker informed me that it was the
extraordinary amount of media accorded the meteorite section of the
first natural history auctions in '95 and '96 that tipped one of the
projects into high gear---which then tipped the other into high gear
as well (I forget which was which). Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer
of Armageddon, intimated the same thing "meteorites suddenly became
hot" (and he purchased some Gibeons from me for select cast
members). Gene was a consultant for at least one of the films and
died in a car accident before either was released.
For the first natural history auction, I recommended that Wayne
Rosso be hired as the publicist. I knew Wayne as the publicist for
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Wayne pulled out the stops. There
were a dozen different television crews in attendance at the first
auction--which is to say nothing of the print journalists present--
and the high prices of meteorites made the international media...and
fell onto Hollywood's radar. Ironically, Wayne later became the CEO
of Grokster and one of the most hated men in Hollywood.
All best / d,
On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:33 PM, E.P. Grondine wrote:
Hi all -
Why were the films "Deep Impact" and "Armagedon" made? They were
not imspired by the impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter.
It appears that after "Titanic", James Cameron was going to make
"Dark Angel Falling", but "Titanic" went over in time, and "Dark
Angel Falling" was cancelled. Its competitors "Deep Impact" and
"Armagedon" did make it to the screen.
By the way, Obama/Boldne/ Garver have propossed $16 million more
per year for the NASA NEO detection budget. As $20 million per year
is still $30 million per year short of the NRC middle option, we'll
have to see what the NSF pitches in.
The announcment of a new Jupiter/Direct initiative is expected
tomorrow.
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
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