More About Emmerich’s 2012

Director Roland Emmerich’s new movie, “2012″ was so good that studios engaged in a bidding war for it. Or at least that’s what people are saying. Personally, I think people just realized the dude has done a ton of entertaining movies and made a bucket load of money, and studios love nothing more than a bankable filmmaker, and Roland Emmerich is certainly that. Now, here’s more about his latest, the “end of the world” disaster movie “2012″. Right. Emmerich and “end of the world” movies. Not exactly a stretch, eh?

When Collider asked Emmerich whether this would achieve a new level of “blowing things up”, Emmerich responded with “it’s not blowing up, it’s something else.” And when prodded further to explain himself, Emmerich almost gave it away: “This time there’s no blowing up. It’s a natural disaster. Well, actually yeah, like a… I’m not saying it! I’m giving things away.” Damn, too close! If only he just finished his sentence…

Emmerich goes on:

“Yes, it will be very expensive, but I think it will be for a price because people who read the script said this is undoable. And I said, well but we’ll do it. I mean, it’s one of these things that everybody says it’s undoable because it’s like, you see the whole world go to shit… It’s kind of one of these things when I write a script, and I wrote it again with Harald [Kloser] together, we just said no, we’ll not think if it’s doable or not, we’ll just write it. We’ll just come up with it. And then we’ll figure out how we’ll do it. I think it’s worth doing it because it’s also when you have something where you have adrenaline because you are nervous about it, that’s good. That’s a little bit like… it’s good when actors have this adrenaline when they go on stage. I think they do their best work, and for us it’s the same thing…”

End of the world stuff, man. And expensive end of the world stuff, at that.

So what’s going to happen in 2012? Who the heck knows, but thank God this movie is going to be released in 2009 instead. That’s at least three years before the end of the world! (But perhaps I’ve said too much…)