Meteor

Name: Meteor
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Action
Released: 1979-10-19
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau

It's five miles wide... it's coming at 30,000 m.p.h... there's no place on Earth to hide!

Meteor (1979)

Timing: 1:47 (107 min)

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Video for the film Meteor — METEOR Original Trailer [1979] 4K

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Release date

1979-10-19

Country

United States

Production

American International Pictures, Palladium, Palladium Productions, Meteor Joint Venture

Genre

Science Fiction, Thriller, Action

Budget

$16 000 000

Box office

$12 600 000

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Director

Ronald Neame

Actors

Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Richard Dysart, Henry Fonda, Joseph Campanella, Bo Brundin
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Scenario

Producer

Arnold H. Orgolini, Theodore R. Parvin, Run Run Shaw, Sandy Howard, Gabriel Katzka, Samuel Z. Arkoff

Camera operator

Paul Lohmann

Composer

Laurence Rosenthal

Artist

Edward C. Carfagno

Audition

Editing

Carl Kress
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Short description

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

What's left behind the scenes

The meteoroid is approaching Earth at approximately 35,000 miles per hour, and the film states that it will collide with Earth in a week. In reality, it would take at least six months to cover the distance from the asteroid belt to Earth's orbit.
Negotiations with Challenger 2 are being conducted in real time at mission control. In reality, it would take several minutes for signals to travel such a vast distance.
The spacecraft with astronauts that we see in the film is an actual model of NASA's first fully equipped space station, 'Skylab'.
The footage of the avalanche (skier in red) was taken from the 1978 film 'Avalanche'.
Some of the communication between mission control and 'Hercules' in the background is taken from recordings of actual conversations made during the 'Apollo' missions.